Using a smartphone for one less hour a day makes you less anxious and happier, research says:

Reducing smartphone use by just one hour a day can make you less anxious, more satisfied, and more likely to exercise, according to one study.

The researchers said that “you don’t have to give up your smartphone completely to feel better,” but found that reducing daily use has positive effects on one’s well-being.

Previous research has shown that smartphone use is linked to obesity, neck pain, poor performance and addictive behaviors, so experts at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum in Germany wanted to determine how much that is.

Dr. Julia Brailovskaia and her team wanted to determine whether our life is really better without smartphones, or if it is at least good for us in daily use and is a weak spot.

The researchers recruited 619 people for their study and divided them into three groups.

In total, 200 people put their smartphones aside for a week, 226 people shortened their device usage time by one hour a day, and 193 people did not change their behavior.

“We found that both completely quitting the smartphone and reducing daily use by one hour had positive effects on participants’ lifestyle and well-being,” says Dr. Brailovskai.

“In the group that reduced use, these effects lasted even longer and were therefore more stable than in the withdrawal group.”

On average, people are glued to their smartphone screens for more than three hours a day.

We at Google find directions, check email or the weather, shop, read the news, watch movies and hang out on social media.

But Dr Brailovskaia said it was “both a blessing and a curse”.

The researchers said that “you don’t have to give up your smartphone completely to feel better,” but found that reducing daily use has positive effects on one’s well-being.

Researchers interviewed all participants about their lifestyle and health immediately after surgery, one month, and four months later.

They were asked how much they exercised, how many cigarettes they smoked a day, how satisfied they were with someone’s life, and whether they showed signs of anxiety or depression.

The one-week intervention changed the participants’ long-term use behaviors: Even four months after the experiment ended, members of the withdrawal group used their smartphones an average of 38 minutes less per day than before.

The group, who spent one hour less per day on their smartphones during the experiment, used the smartphone 45 minutes less per day than before, four months later.

At the same time, life satisfaction and time spent on physical activity increased, while symptoms of depression and anxiety and nicotine consumption decreased.

“You don’t have to give up your smartphone completely to feel better,” says Dr Brailovskaia. “It might be an optimal daily usage time.”

The research was published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied †

IS IT TIME TO PUBLISH YOUR PHONE? PEOPLE “SEND TO MOBILE ONE IN THREE WAKE HOURS”

Research shows that people are spending up to 4.8 hours a day, or about a third of their waking hours, on their cell phones in the past year.

App Annie’s “State of Mobile” report shows consumers around the world will spend a record 3.8 trillion hours on mobile by 2021.

In the UK, the average time spent on phones per day was four hours in 2021, below the global average for the year of 4.8 hours.

In the UK, the average time spent on mobile devices per day was four hours in 2021, below the global average for the year of 4.8 hours.

But mobile usage in the UK has increased from three hours a day in 2019 to 3.7 hours a day in 2020.

The company said 2021 is a “record” overall as consumers continue to embrace a mobile lifestyle and move away from big screens.

In particular, the use of the Chinese video-sharing app TikTok has increased by 90% worldwide, excluding China, compared to 2020.

“The mobile phone is the greatest of all time and the favorite device of the future,” said Theodore Krantz, CEO of App Annie.

“The big screen is slowly dying as mobile devices continue to break records in nearly every category – time spent, downloads and revenue –.”

The ranking of companies and apps reported in the AnnieStato del mobile 2022 app is based on various usage estimates derived from downloads, consumer spending, and market insights.