Indian Journal of Health and Wellbeing

Neethu George ¹, Rosalito De Guzman ¹

Affiliations
1 The Graduate School, University of Santo Tomas, Manila, Philippines ., IN

Abstract

In depression, people experience feelings of sadness, emptiness, and irritability, as well as cognitive and behavioural changes lasting for two weeks, which are significant enough to negatively affect their daily functioning. A hallmark of depression is rumination, which involves uncontrolled, narrowly focused thoughts, often selfreferential. The Attention Network Test (ANT) is based on the attention model developed by Posner and colleagues. Scores were provided for alerting by ANT. Alerting is a necessary part of being attentive to incoming information. For assessing depression, the Beck Depression Inventory was used. The alerting performance of young adults was measured using ANT, and the Ruminative Response Scale (RRS-SF) is a short version for assessing rumination. According to the study results, depressive symptoms, rumination, and alerting attention (p < 0.01) in young adults had a significantly very strong positive correlation.

Keywords

depression, alerting attention, ANT, rumination

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Mathew Priya ¹, Rosalito De Guzman ¹

Affiliations
1 The Graduate School, University of Santo Tomas, Manila, Philippines ., IN

Abstract

Problematic smartphone usage or smartphone addiction has become more prevalent among young adults. Young adults' emotional, physical, and spiritual health are all impacted, negatively affecting their sleep. It involves young adults' emotional, physical, and social aspects and negatively affects their sleep quality. Problematic smartphone usage and sleep quality among young adults from India are the main focus of this study. The present study used the short version of Smartphone Addiction (SAS-SV) and the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) questionnaires to gather the data. This study shows a strong positive correlation between PSU and poor sleep among young adults. The study highlights the importance of maintaining the growing public health issue of problematic smartphone usage and improving quality of sleep among young adults.

Keywords

problematic smartphone usage, sleep quality, young adults, association

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