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Bedtime Smart Phone Usage and Its Effects on Work-Related Behaviour at Workplace
The over usage and over dependency on digital devices, like smartphones, has been considered as a growing international epidemic. The increased dependency on gadgets, especially smartphones for personal and official uses, has also brought many detrimental effects on individual users. Hence it is vit...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8416429/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34484046 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.698413 |
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author | Ellahi, Abida Javed, Yasir Begum, Samina Mushtaq, Rabia Rehman, Mobashar Rehman, Hafiz Mudassir |
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description | The over usage and over dependency on digital devices, like smartphones, has been considered as a growing international epidemic. The increased dependency on gadgets, especially smartphones for personal and official uses, has also brought many detrimental effects on individual users. Hence it is vital to understand the negative effects of smartphone usage on human. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the effects of bedtime smartphone usage on work performances, interpersonal conflicts, and work engagement, via the mediating role of sleep quality among employees. Using a cross-sectional study design, a questionnaire-based field survey was conducted on 315 employees who participated as respondents. The results confirmed the negative effects of bedtime smartphone usage on sleep quality. Along with it, the effects of sleep quality on work performances, work engagements and interpersonal conflicts were also proven to be statistically significant. Regarding the mediating role of sleep quality, it was empirically evident that sleep quality mediates the relationship between bedtime smartphone usage with work performances and interpersonal conflicts. The findings revealed that bedtime smartphone usage reduces sleep quality among the employees, resulting in lower work performances and engagements while contributing to higher interpersonal conflicts. The findings concluded that smartphone usage before sleep increases the prospects of employees to be less productive, less engaged, and have more workplace conflicts. The findings warrant the continued managerial as well as academic research attention, as the smartphones are now used by many organisations to run businesses as well. |
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spelling | pubmed-84164292021-09-04 Bedtime Smart Phone Usage and Its Effects on Work-Related Behaviour at Workplace Ellahi, Abida Javed, Yasir Begum, Samina Mushtaq, Rabia Rehman, Mobashar Rehman, Hafiz Mudassir Front Psychol Psychology The over usage and over dependency on digital devices, like smartphones, has been considered as a growing international epidemic. The increased dependency on gadgets, especially smartphones for personal and official uses, has also brought many detrimental effects on individual users. Hence it is vital to understand the negative effects of smartphone usage on human. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the effects of bedtime smartphone usage on work performances, interpersonal conflicts, and work engagement, via the mediating role of sleep quality among employees. Using a cross-sectional study design, a questionnaire-based field survey was conducted on 315 employees who participated as respondents. The results confirmed the negative effects of bedtime smartphone usage on sleep quality. Along with it, the effects of sleep quality on work performances, work engagements and interpersonal conflicts were also proven to be statistically significant. Regarding the mediating role of sleep quality, it was empirically evident that sleep quality mediates the relationship between bedtime smartphone usage with work performances and interpersonal conflicts. The findings revealed that bedtime smartphone usage reduces sleep quality among the employees, resulting in lower work performances and engagements while contributing to higher interpersonal conflicts. The findings concluded that smartphone usage before sleep increases the prospects of employees to be less productive, less engaged, and have more workplace conflicts. The findings warrant the continued managerial as well as academic research attention, as the smartphones are now used by many organisations to run businesses as well. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-08-18 /pmc/articles/PMC8416429/ /pubmed/34484046 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.698413 Text en Copyright © 2021 Ellahi, Javed, Begum, Mushtaq, Rehman and Rehman. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Ellahi, Abida Javed, Yasir Begum, Samina Mushtaq, Rabia Rehman, Mobashar Rehman, Hafiz Mudassir Bedtime Smart Phone Usage and Its Effects on Work-Related Behaviour at Workplace |
title | Bedtime Smart Phone Usage and Its Effects on Work-Related Behaviour at Workplace |
title_full | Bedtime Smart Phone Usage and Its Effects on Work-Related Behaviour at Workplace |
title_fullStr | Bedtime Smart Phone Usage and Its Effects on Work-Related Behaviour at Workplace |
title_full_unstemmed | Bedtime Smart Phone Usage and Its Effects on Work-Related Behaviour at Workplace |
title_short | Bedtime Smart Phone Usage and Its Effects on Work-Related Behaviour at Workplace |
title_sort | bedtime smart phone usage and its effects on work-related behaviour at workplace |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8416429/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34484046 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.698413 |
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