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Combatting Digital Addiction: Current Approaches And Future Directions, Deniz Cemiloglu, Mohamed Basel Almourad, John Mcalaney, Raian Ali
Combatting Digital Addiction: Current Approaches And Future Directions, Deniz Cemiloglu, Mohamed Basel Almourad, John Mcalaney, Raian Ali
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In recent years, the notion of digital addiction has become popular. Calls for solutions to combat it, especially in adolescents, are on the rise. Whilst there remains debate on the status of this phenomenon as a diagnosable mental health condition; there is a need for prevention and intervention approaches that encourage individuals to have more control over their digital usage. This narrative review examines digital addiction countermeasures proposed in the last ten years. By countermeasures, we mean strategies and techniques for prevention, harm reduction, and intervention towards addictive digital behaviours. We include studies published in peer-reviewed journals between 2010 and …
Perceptions And Misperceptions Of Smartphone Use: Applying The Social Norms Approach, John Mcalaney, Mohamed Basel Almourad, Georgina Powell, Raian Ali
Perceptions And Misperceptions Of Smartphone Use: Applying The Social Norms Approach, John Mcalaney, Mohamed Basel Almourad, Georgina Powell, Raian Ali
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© 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. The social norms approach is an established technique to bring about behaviour change through challenging misperceptions of peer behaviour. This approach is limited by a reliance on self-report and a lack of interactivity with the target population. At the same time, excessive use of digital devices, known as digital addiction, has been recognized as an emergent issue. There is potential to apply the social norms approach to digital addiction and, in doing so, address some of the limitations of the social norms field. In this study, we trialled a social norms …