Sleeping with the smartphone

Autor(en)

Kathrin Karsay, Desiree Schmuck, Anja Stevic, Jörg Matthes

Abstrakt

This article seeks to explain the longitudinal associations of taking the smartphone to bed on adolescents’ daytime tiredness and physical well-being. We examined whether parents’: (a) active mediation; and (b) restrictive mediation determines whether children and adolescents have their phones within reach in bed or not. We used longitudinal data from a two-wave panel survey (NTime2 = 384) of early adolescents (10–14 years, MTime2 = 12.37, SD = 1.48, 46.4% girls) and one of their parents (=parent–child dyads) in Germany. A polling company collected the data in a four-month interval in 2018 and 2019, using a quota-sample procedure based on parents’ age and gender. Structural equation modelling revealed that active but not restrictive parental mediation at Time 1 (baseline) negatively predicted adolescents having their smartphones in bed at Time 2 (follow-up). We found that having a smartphone in bed increased adolescents’ daytime tiredness. Daytime tiredness was associated with decreased physical well-being over time. The findings indicate that parents should use active mediation to reduce their children’s use of their smartphones at nighttime to protect their physical well-being from tiredness.

Organisation(en)

Institut für Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft

Externe Organisation(en)

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

Journal

Behaviour & Information Technology

Band

42

Seiten

1833-1844

Anzahl der Seiten

12

ISSN

0144-929X

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1080/0144929X.2022.2100277

Publikationsdatum

2022

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

508007 Kommunikationswissenschaft

Schlagwörter

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Allgemeine Sozialwissenschaften, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous), Human-computer interaction

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/5b784099-234a-4780-89c5-ef934000ad37