Research carried out by Murdoch and Griffith Universities in Australia tracked revolution in late-night mobile phone using, sleep, and mental health indicators.
They found that adolescents’ late-night mobile phone use was directly linked to poor quality sleep routine, which subsequently led to poorer mental health outcomes later, reduced coping, and lowered self-esteem.
A continuous study of 1,101 Australian high school students aged between 13 and 16 found poor-quality sleep associated with late-night texting or calling was linked to a decline in mental health, such as depressed moods and declines in self-esteem and coping ability led them to suffer a lot through depression.
They found that adolescents’ late-night mobile phone use was directly linked to poor quality sleep routine, which subsequently led to poorer mental health outcomes later, reduced coping, and lowered self-esteem.
A continuous study of 1,101 Australian high school students aged between 13 and 16 found poor-quality sleep associated with late-night texting or calling was linked to a decline in mental health, such as depressed moods and declines in self-esteem and coping ability led them to suffer a lot through depression.
Heavy smartphone use can make you depressed
co-author Dr Kathryn Modecki from the Griffith Menzies Health Institute said, “We found that teenagers who start out as relatively ‘healthy’ in terms of their late-night mobile use early in high school tend to show steeper escalations in their late-night mobile use over the next several years and also found that they lack interest in studies.”
Lead researcher, Lynette Vernon of Murdoch University in Perth told that her findings of the research she did were evidence of the need for curfews for teenagers to be established around the use of devices in their bedrooms. Teenagers who used their phones as alarms in the morning should replace them with clocks in order to maintain “physical boundaries”, she said. Mobile phones pump out electromagnetic radiation which is dangerous for brain.
Researchers examined teenagers’ mobile phone use and their subsequent changes in well-being over four years of high school from 2010 to 2013 and found increasingly unencumbered access led to increases in psychosocial maladjustment and mental disorders.
co-author Dr Kathryn Modecki from the Griffith Menzies Health Institute said, “We found that teenagers who start out as relatively ‘healthy’ in terms of their late-night mobile use early in high school tend to show steeper escalations in their late-night mobile use over the next several years and also found that they lack interest in studies.”
Lead researcher, Lynette Vernon of Murdoch University in Perth told that her findings of the research she did were evidence of the need for curfews for teenagers to be established around the use of devices in their bedrooms. Teenagers who used their phones as alarms in the morning should replace them with clocks in order to maintain “physical boundaries”, she said. Mobile phones pump out electromagnetic radiation which is dangerous for brain.
Researchers examined teenagers’ mobile phone use and their subsequent changes in well-being over four years of high school from 2010 to 2013 and found increasingly unencumbered access led to increases in psychosocial maladjustment and mental disorders.
Professionals and phone use
“What is especially evoking interest,” said Dr Modecki, “is that these increased poor sleeps, in turn, led to rises in depression, bad moods and externalizing behaviors, and declines in self-esteem and coping one year later,” said Dr Modecki. “These effects were highly robust, across the various outcomes Dr Vernon examined in his research.”
Dr Vernon reviewed that although these results were concerning, the answer was not so simple just banning adolescent/ teenagers phone use, “There are many potential benefits of mobile technology, but these results demonstrate the importance of adults ‘meeting teens where they are’, enforcing electronic curfews, and teaching good sleep habits during the high school years.”
“What is especially evoking interest,” said Dr Modecki, “is that these increased poor sleeps, in turn, led to rises in depression, bad moods and externalizing behaviors, and declines in self-esteem and coping one year later,” said Dr Modecki. “These effects were highly robust, across the various outcomes Dr Vernon examined in his research.”
Dr Vernon reviewed that although these results were concerning, the answer was not so simple just banning adolescent/ teenagers phone use, “There are many potential benefits of mobile technology, but these results demonstrate the importance of adults ‘meeting teens where they are’, enforcing electronic curfews, and teaching good sleep habits during the high school years.”
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