Growing use of mobiles phones (MP) and other wireless devices (WD) has raised concerns about their possible effects on children and adolescents’ well
This increases the potential for parents' mobile device use to disrupt parent-child interactions. Parents who use their phones during parent-child interactions are less sensitive and responsive both verbally and nonverbally to their children's bids for attention, potentially leading to lower quality ...
What impact can mobile phones have on their users" health? Many people worry about the supposed ill effects caused by radiation from handsets and base stations, despite the lack of credible evidence of any harm. But evidence for the beneficial effects of mobile phones on health is rather more...
What impact can mobile phones have on their users’ health Many people worry about the supposed ill effects caused by radiation from handsets and base stations, (1) the lack of credible evidence of any harm. But evidence for the beneficial effects of mobile phones on health is rather more (...
Editor's note: 60 Minutes' Guy Campanile has produced two reports with Anderson Cooper on the impact mobile devices may have on the brain. It's pretty easy to find the parent of a preteen with strong opinions about the amount of time their children spend on smart phones or tablets. I ne...
Mobile phones provide a direct communicative channel between teenagers and peer groups, parents and children; therefore the device enhances social interactions and bonding with peers and family. In order to explore the impact of mobile adoption on teenagers' social relationships, a random sample of ...
It is always the closest device to us. We carry it around all day and we sleep next to it at night. Mobile reaches 87% of the world’s population, with more people than ever using their smartphones to go online.A recent study showed that children as young as seven now possess a sma...
While mobile phones has improved our daily lives on many levels, it has profoundly raised the quality of life for many. Healthcare is an area that has embraced mobile technology, and while it’s still in the infancy of adoption of this technology, it is already making profound improvements ...
The first study in Australia to use nationally representative data on how mobile phones have become integrated into everyday lives has released its final report. The study, The Impact of the Mobile Phone on Work/Life Balance, is a collaboration between AMTA and the Australian Research Council. ...
A time-trend analysis has demonstrated that the utilization of mobile phones has increased substantially from 2011 to 2017, especially in children and teenagers, and these are frequently used while engaging in other leisure activities (Auhuber et al., 2019). Pedestrians and drivers are at a ...