If you considerably reduce your daily use of smartphone, you feel better. A relapse in old habits, on the other hand, leads to a deterioration of mental health, as Nö researchers show in a new study. A certain time window became particularly clear what the intellectual pit confirmation is noticeably deteriorated.
In the 300,000 -year evolution of people there has never been such a behavior: that we hold a 200 grams of object in our hands three hours a day, repair it with a reduced look and tap and wipe it continuously with your thumb and forefinger.
Stress, sleep quality and depressive symptoms
Excessive use of mobile phones also has a demonstrable negative impact on mental health. Especially with regard to stress, poor sleep quality and depressive symptoms, such as the lower Austrian researchers in the specialist “BMC Medicine” shot news.
In particular, 111 students participated in the study that a team led by Christoph Pieh, head of the Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy department at Krems University, with an average age of almost 23 years. The daily smartphone use of a group was limited to a maximum of two hours. A control group held on average 4.5 hours.
Limit value is two hours a day
After three weeks there were easy to medium -sized effects: if there is a limitation to less than two hours a day, an improvement in mental health among students could be determined. Depressive symptoms were reduced by 27 percent, the stress fell by 16 percent, sleep quality increased by 18 percent and the general wells increased by 14 percent. “For the first time we were able to show a causal relationship between the use of smartphones and mental health,” Pieh is quoted.
However, the positive effects failed quickly as soon as the use of mobile phones rose again. During a follow -up investigation, the values approached the starting level again. Sustainable behavioral change is therefore important.
Source: Krone
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