Smartphone addiction, daily interruptions and self-reported productivity
Duke É, Montag C
Addictive behaviors reports · 129 citations
How it was studied
- Design
- Cross-sectional study (classified by our AI screen)
- Studied in
- People
- Main outcome
- No health outcome
Who paid for it
- Funding
- Independent funding
- Government
- Social Science Research Council
- Government
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
- Government
- German Research Foundation
- Grants
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (MO-2363/3-1); Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (2363/3-1); Social Science Research Council (J00124)
Based on 3 listed funder(s) and full-text disclosure statement.
Publication
- Published
- 2017-07-19 · Addict Behav Rep · vol. 6 · pp. 90–95
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Cited
- 472 citations · more than 100% of similar papers · 93.6× the field average
- Impact
- Top 10% most cited in its field
- References
- 35 works
- Access
- Open access (journal) · CC-BY-NC-ND
- Research areas
- Impact of Technology on Adolescents · Technostress in Professional Settings · Cyberloafing and Workplace Behavior
- Keywords
- smartphone addiction, smartphone overuse, labor productivity, interruptions, technostress, flow
2 authors
From GB, CN, DE
- Éilish Duke · correspondingGoldsmiths University of London
- Christian Montag · correspondingUniversity of Electronic Science and Technology of China; Universität Ulm
Abstract
The advent of the smartphone has dramatically altered how we communicate, navigate, work and entertain ourselves. While the advantages of this new technology are clear, constant use may also bring negative consequences, such as a loss of productivity due to interruptions in work life. A link between smartphone overuse and loss of productivity has often been hypothesized, but empirical evidence on this question is scarce. The present study addressed this question by collecting self-report data from N = 262 participants, assessing private and work-related smartphone use, smartphone addiction and self-rated productivity. Our results indicate a moderate relationship between smartphone addiction and a self-reported decrease in productivity due to spending time on the smartphone during work, as well as with the number of work hours lost to smartphone use. Smartphone addiction was also related to a greater amount of leisure time spent on the smartphone and was strongly related to a negative impact of smartphone use on daily non-work related activities. These data support the idea that tendencies towards smartphone addiction and overt checking of the smartphone could result in less productivity both in the workplace and at home. Results are discussed in relation to productivity and technostress.
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