Sleeping with the frenemy: How restricting ‘bedroom use’ of smartphones impacts happiness and wellbeing

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Highlights:

• Not using smartphones in the bedroom increases happiness and quality of life.

• Risk of smartphone addiction decreases when smartphones are left outside the bedroom.

• Going to bed without smartphones in the room improves quality of sleep.

• Sleeping without smartphones improves sleep, relationships, focus and wellbeing.

• 93.6% of participants “might” or “would” consider not sleeping with their phone again.

摘要

•Not using smartphones in the bedroom increases happiness and quality of life.•Risk of smartphone addiction decreases when smartphones are left outside the bedroom.•Going to bed without smartphones in the room improves quality of sleep.•Sleeping without smartphones improves sleep, relationships, focus and wellbeing.•93.6% of participants “might” or “would” consider not sleeping with their phone again.

论文关键词:Smartphone,Social media,Social overload,Subjective wellbeing,Cyber psychology,Positive psychology

论文评审过程:Received 11 November 2017, Revised 26 January 2018, Accepted 27 March 2018, Available online 29 March 2018, Version of Record 10 April 2018.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2018.03.047