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ArticleJournal of adolescence2024

Daily links between objective smartphone use and sleep among adolescents.

Kaitlyn Burnell, Shedrick L Garrett, Benjamin W Nelson, Mitchell J Prinstein, Eva H Telzer

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Article in Journal of adolescence, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Adolescents' daily affect predicts their mobile phone use (not the other way around).Journal of research on adolescence : the official journal of the Society for Research on Adolescence · 2026
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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors.

Kaitlyn BurnellDepartment of Psychology and Neuroscience, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0959-6632
Shedrick L GarrettDepartment of Psychology and Neuroscience, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2007-5339
Benjamin W NelsonDepartment of Psychology and Neuroscience, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
Mitchell J PrinsteinDepartment of Psychology and Neuroscience, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
Eva H TelzerDepartment of Psychology and Neuroscience, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.

Funding

Incorporating the Social Context into Neurocognitive Models of Adolescent Risk TakingR01DA039923 · NIDA · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI TELZER, EVA HAIMO · 2015 to 2019
$2.7M
NIDA NIH HHS R01 DA039923NIH HHS R01DA039923Winston Family Foundation
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

introductionConcerns abound on how digital technology such as smartphone use may impair adolescent sleep. Although these linkages are supported in cross-sectional studies, research involving intensive longitudinal assessments and objective measures has called into question the robustness of associations.

methodsIn this study, a sample of ethnically diverse U.S. adolescents (N = 71; M

resultsOn days when adolescents engaged in greater nighttime screen time and, to some extent, pickups relative to their own average, they also had poorer sleep outcomes that night. Greater screen time was associated with later self-reported and Fitbit-recorded sleep onset and poorer self-reported sleep quality. Greater pickups was associated with later self-reported and Fitbit-recorded sleep onset. Smartphone use during the day did not relate to sleep outcomes, indicating the importance of distinguishing nighttime from daytime use.

conclusionsParents and clinicians should help adolescents develop healthy digital skills to avoid exacerbating sleep problems that are known to occur during this developmental period.

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Screen TimeSmartphoneAdolescentAdolescent BehaviorCross-Sectional StudiesFemaleHumansMaleSelf ReportSleepSleep Qualityadolescencesleepsmartphones

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PMID38698757
PMCPMC11303118

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