Does the smartphone use affect the determination of daily goals: A nursing students’ example?

Abstract

Purpose: To examine how the risky use of smartphone in nursing students affects their daily goals.Design and Methods: A total of 419 nursing students participated in this study. A Descriptive Data Form, Smartphone Addiction Scale-Short Version, and Daily Goals Scale were used to collect the data.Findings: According to our study results; students who are afraid of forgetting or losing their phone have a higher risk of being smartphone addiction. As the risks of students' smartphone addiction increase, their daily goal setting levels decreased.Practice Implications: The risky use of smartphone effects negatively daily goals setting. Education and counseling programs that will prevent the risky use of smartphones and the associated risk of addiction should be provided for nursing students. K E Y W O R D Sdaily goals, nursing students, smartphone | INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUNDSmartphones have become one of the indispensable elements of daily life especially among young people all over the world as well as in Turkey. [1][2][3] Interactions with others on social networks, watching and sharing videos and pictures, email, online shopping, and easily accessible applications have increased the use of smartphones. Besides, the convenience they provide for daily life such as getting health care information, online banking, and finding addresses and routes while waiting in traffic or in a queue attract consumers, resulting in constantly increasing sales of smartphones with frequent addition of new features. 4 Although using smartphones facilitates daily activities, it can also have a negative effect on interpersonal relationships, and physical and mental health. 3,[5][6][7][8] The use of mobile phones during driving can especially cause problems and even traffic accidents. Smartphone users are more likely to experience somatic symptoms, insomnia, social dysfunction, anxiety, and depression compared to the nonsmartphone users and it is also possible to become addicted to smartphones as seen with alcohol and other substances. [9][10][11] Smartphone addiction is a relatively new phenomenon. 12,13 Although it has not been included under the category of nonsubstance-related disorders in Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (5th Edition), it is predicted that smartphone use will be included as a separate diagnosis under behavioral addiction in future clinical studies. 14,15 Repetitive behaviors are at the root of behavioral addictions. Behaviors that give pleasure to the person become habitual with repetition. However, one must be careful when considering a habitual behavior as an addiction. An addiction entails the person's excessive involvement with a certain behavior, repeating this behavior to escape from the real world or to create a pleasant feeling, the development of tolerance as the behavior is repeated, and the disruption of functionality with the emergence of withdrawal symptoms such as tension, irritability, and restlessness when the repetition of the behavior is prevented. [16][17][18][19][20] Excessive...

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“…[28] In 3 studies conducted in nursing students in Türkiye, it was reported that the daily time spent on smartphones was over 5 hours. [39][40][41] There is another study that states that 48.6% of its participants use smartphones for more than 5 hours a day. [27] The results of the studies mentioned above are consistent with the results of the present study.…”

The pattern of smartphone usage, smartphone addiction, and associated subjective health problems associated with smartphone use among undergraduate nursing students

“…Education and counseling programs have been suggested in the literature to prevent the risky use of smartphones and reduce the associated risk of addiction for students. [ 6 ] Among adolescents aged 18 to 29 years, 22% of them reported that they check their smartphones every few minutes which explains the trend of addiction. 47% of the parents surveyed have believed that their children are addicted to their smartphones.…”

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