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Smartphone overuse and distraction: which relationship with general well-being across different generations?
No full textBackground The appropriate use of smartphones is closely related to individual well-being. However, excessive use
of smartphones can have detrimental effects on users. This study explores the relationship between problematic
smartphone use, smartphone distraction, and well-being across four different generations.
Method A total of 430 Italian participants ranging across four generations categorized by age groups, completed
a comprehensive questionnaire. These groups included Baby Boomers (M=63.76; SD=4.50), Generation X (M=50.94;
SD=4.41), Generation Y (35,88; SD=2.29), and Generation Z (M=24.23; SD=2.73). The questionnaire included sociodemographic information, digital tools usage, digital activities, the Mobile Problematic Use Scale (MPPUS) and its
subdimensions—withdrawal and social aspects (WITHD) and craving and escape from other problems (CRAV)—the
Smartphone Distraction Scale (SDS) and its subdimensions—attention impulsiveness (ATT IMP), online vigilance (ON
VIG), emotion regulation (EM REG), and multitasking (MULT)—and the I COPPE well-being scale. Analyses were conducted using ANOVA, correlations, and hierarchical regression to explore the relationships between these variables.
Generational groups and weekly time spent on online activities were included as control variables in the hierarchical
regression analysis.
Result Results revealed a positive correlation between MPPS and SDS scores. The younger generation showed higher
mean values for MPPS and SDS, except for ON VIG. No significant generational differences were found in well-being
subdimensions. WITHD negatively affects interpersonal (β=-0.144; p<0.05), community (β=-0.172; p<0.01), psychological (β=-0.128; p<0.05), general (β=-0.140; p<0.05), and economic (β=-0.147; p <0.05) well-being while EM REG
negatively affect occupational (β=—0.158; p<0.05) well-being. Conversely, MULT was positively related to occupational (β=0.191; p<0.01) physical (β=0.131; p<0.05), and economic (β=0.124; p<0.05) well-being.
Conclusion This study illustrates how smartphones often function as an escape from the real word, underscoring
the need to manage and educate their use.
Keywords Smartphone overuse, Distraction, Well-being, Generatio
Smartphone overuse and distraction: which relationship with general well-being across different generations?
Full text linkBackground: The appropriate use of smartphones is closely related to individual well-being. However, excessive use of smartphones can have detrimental effects on users. This study explores the relationship between problematic smartphone use, smartphone distraction, and well-being across four different generations. Method: A total of 430 Italian participants ranging across four generations categorized by age groups, completed a comprehensive questionnaire. These groups included Baby Boomers (M = 63.76; SD = 4.50), Generation X (M = 50.94; SD = 4.41), Generation Y (35,88; SD = 2.29), and Generation Z (M = 24.23; SD = 2.73). The questionnaire included socio-demographic information, digital tools usage, digital activities, the Mobile Problematic Use Scale (MPPUS) and its subdimensions—withdrawal and social aspects (WITHD) and craving and escape from other problems (CRAV)—the Smartphone Distraction Scale (SDS) and its subdimensions—attention impulsiveness (ATT IMP), online vigilance (ON VIG), emotion regulation (EM REG), and multitasking (MULT)—and the I COPPE well-being scale. Analyses were conducted using ANOVA, correlations, and hierarchical regression to explore the relationships between these variables. Generational groups and weekly time spent on online activities were included as control variables in the hierarchical regression analysis. Result: Results revealed a positive correlation between MPPS and SDS scores. The younger generation showed higher mean values for MPPS and SDS, except for ON VIG. No significant generational differences were found in well-being subdimensions. WITHD negatively affects interpersonal (β = -0.144; p < 0.05), community (β = -0.172; p < 0.01), psychological (β = -0.128; p < 0.05), general (β = -0.140; p < 0.05), and economic (β = -0.147; p < 0.05) well-being while EM REG negatively affect occupational (β =—0.158; p < 0.05) well-being. Conversely, MULT was positively related to occupational (β = 0.191; p < 0.01) physical (β = 0.131; p< 0.05), and economic (β = 0.124; p < 0.05) well-being. Conclusion: This study illustrates how smartphones often function as an escape from the real word, underscoring the need to manage and educate their use
Sardinian elders: successful aging and psychosocial correlates despite response bias.
No full textExtreme variance in the prevalence of successful ageing (SA) has been observed raising concern over the generalizability of findings. The study of populations characterized by SA is one solution to this problem. A total of 226 cognitively healthy community-dwelling participants aged 75–103, from the Blue Zone region of Sardinia were recruited and completed a range of indices of SA. Putative psychosocial correlates of SA were also assessed along with a measure of social desirability. After controlling significant social desirability bias, multiple indices of SA were found to be high relative to Italian cutoffs and differed between age groups and genders. A significant proportion of the variance in SA indices was explained by social desirability, perceived physical health, gender, cognitive failures and gardening. Superior SA was evident in Sardinian elders. The data underscore a need to control social desirability bias when exploring the basis of SA
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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