Relationship of Smartphone Use Severity with Sleep Quality, Depression, and Anxiety in University Students

By K. Demi̇rci̇, M. Akgönül, A. Akpınar. Journal of Behavioral Addictions, 2015

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Background and Aims The usage of smartphones has increased rapidly in recent years, and this has brought about addiction. The aim of the current study was to investigate the relationship between smartphone use severity and sleep quality, depression, and anxiety in university students. Methods In total, 319 university students (203 females and 116 males; mean age = 20.5 ± 2.45) were included in the study. Participants were divided into the following three groups: a smartphone non-user group (n = 71, 22.3%), a low smartphone use group (n = 121, 37.9%), and a high smartphone use group (n = 127, 39.8%). All participants were evaluated using the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index, Beck Depression Inventory, Beck Anxiety Inventory; moreover, participants other than those in the smartphone non-user group were also assessed with the Smartphone Addiction Scale. Results The findings revealed that the Smartphone Addiction Scale scores of females were significantly higher than those of males. Depression, anxiety, and daytime dysfunction scores were higher in the high smartphone use group than in the low smartphone use group. Positive correlations were found between the Smartphone Addiction Scale scores and depression levels, anxiety levels, and some sleep quality scores. Conclusion The results indicate that depression, anxiety, and sleep quality may be associated with smartphone overuse. Such overuse may lead to depression and/or anxiety, which can in turn result in sleep problems. University students with high depression and anxiety scores should be carefully monitored for smartphone addiction.

Subfields: Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Non-social features of smartphone use are most related to depression, anxiety and problematic smartphone use (2017, methodology): “Consistent support has been found for depression severity (Demirci, Akgonul, & Akpinar, 2015; Smetaniuk, 2014) and anxiety severity (Demirci et al., 2015; Elhai, Levine, Dvorak, & Hall, 2016; Harwood, Dooley, Scott, & Joiner, 2014; Kim, Lee, & Choi, 2015).”
Problematic smartphone use: A conceptual overview and systematic review of relations with anxiety and depression psychopathology. (2017, methodology): “Problematic mobile phone use is associated with health hazards, such as texting while driving, leading to injury and death (reviewed in Cazzulino et al., 2014), and types of psychopathology, including anxiety and depression (e.g., Demirci et al., 2015; Kim et al., 2015a).”
Psychological Distress, Emotion Dysregulation, and Coping Behaviour: a Theoretical Perspective of Problematic Smartphone Use (2020, background): “…2019; Darcin et al. 2016), low social support (Herrero et al. 2019), family conflict (Mahapatra 2019), sleep disturbance and poor sleep quality (Demirci et al. 2015; Lemola et al. 2015; Thomée et al. 2011), low grade point average and less effective learning styles among university students…”
Tracking Depression Dynamics in College Students Using Mobile Phone and Wearable Sensing (2018, background): “Previous work [20] shows that smartphone overuse may lead to increased risk of depression and/or anxiety.”
Fear of missing out, need for touch, anxiety and depression are related to problematic smartphone use (2016, methodology): “In fact, the few problematic smartphone use studies examining both variables in regression models also found small coefficients despite large bivariate associations (Demirci et al., 2015), or a strong positive relationship for one variable but an inverse relationship for the other (Lu et al., 2011).”
Personality, fear of missing out and problematic internet use and their relationship to subjective well-being (2017, background): “Individuals with higher smartphone use (suggesting more social media engagement) had significantly greater sleep problems compared to those with lower smartphone use (Demirci et al, 2015).”
Internet Addiction, Fatigue, and Sleep Problems Among Adolescent Students: a Large-Scale Study (2019, background): “Several studies have demonstrated that individuals can become addicted to online activities, particularly those that have psychological and emotional problems such as depression, anxiety, loneliness, distraction, and lack of sleep (Griffiths 1998; Bener and Bhugra 2013; Demirci et al. 2015; Rehbein ”