ArticleChildren (Basel, Switzerland)2023
The Influence of Smartphone Use on Tweens' Capacity for Complex Critical Thinking.
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- The eHealth literacy and its sociodemographic determinants among adult inpatients in Web 3.0 context: a cross-sectional study.BMC public health · 2026Article
- Assessing Critical Thinking in Young Children: Development and Validation of the Critical Thinking Assessment for Children.Europe's journal of psychology · 2026Article
- The Impact of Smartphone Use on Brain Function in Adolescence: A Scoping Review.Pediatric reports · 2026Review
- The association between personal interest and critical thinking: a comparison between a universal (death penalty) and a local (Strait of Messina Bridge) debate.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Development and psychometric properties of the critical thinking attitude scale in Italian college students.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- The Role of Smartphone Use in Sensory Processing: Differences Between Adolescents with ADHD and Typical Development.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Article
- The Role of Critical Thinking in Mitigating Social Network Addiction: A Study of TikTok and Instagram Users.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Article
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Abstract
The spread of modern technologies exposes many people to a high level of ambiguous and misleading information that can impact people's judgments and worldviews. This happens especially in a phase of life such as preadolescence when children are particularly sensitive to external conditioning. Critical thinking can be seen as the first line of defense against misleading information. However, little is known about the consequences of media use on the critical thinking skills of tweens. In this study, we evaluated the effects of problematic smartphone use on the various stages of critical thinking, comparing high and low tween smartphone users. The results confirm the main hypothesis, namely, that problematic smartphone use is related to the ability to think critically. There was a significant difference between high and low users in the third phase of critical thinking: evaluation of sources.
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