scholarly journals Association between Excessive Use of Mobile Phone and Insomnia and Depression among Japanese Adolescents

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tamura Haruka ◽  
Tomoko Nishida ◽  
Akiyo Tsuji ◽  
Hisataka Sakakibara
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Network Services ◽  
School Students ◽  
Mobile Phone Use ◽  
Social Network Services ◽  
Senior High School Students

Adolescents spend an increasing amount of time on mobile phones. The aim of this study was to assess the relationship between duration of mobile phone use and insomnia and depression in senior high school students. The cross-sectional study was conducted on 295 senior high school students in Japan. Mobile phones were owned by 98.6% of students; 58.6% of students used mobile phones for more than 2 h daily and 10.5% used them for 5 h daily. The risk of insomnia was significantly high in students who used mobile phones for 5 h or more (OR: 3.89 [95% CI: 1.21-12.49]). There was no significant association between depression and duration of mobile phone use. However, individuals who spent 120 min or more using mobile phones for social network services (OR: 3.63 [1.20-10.98]) and online chats (OR: 3.14 [1.42-6.95]) were at risk for depression. Excessive mobile phone use is associated with unhealthy sleep habits and insomnia. Moreover, the excessive use of the social network services and online chats are related to depression rather than duration of mobile phone use. Adolescents should use mobile phones appropriately to avoid sleep disturbances and the impairment of mental health.

scholarly journals Instagram as Media in Teaching Writing Recount Text for Senior High School Students

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (01) ◽  
pp. 11-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdul - Basith
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Social Media ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Senior High School ◽  
Teaching Writing ◽  
School Students ◽  
Great Opportunity ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Senior High School Students

Social media is web-based application that allows users to communicate, collaborate, and share resources with other people. Both being easy to access and easy to use make social media become an effective way to communicate and exchange ideas. Students can use social media to keep up with their friends, to stay up-to-date with news and current events, to fill up spare time, to find entertaining content, and to share opinions. The use of social media becomes famous for the students nowadays. Thus, the popularity of the social media among students can be used as a tool in language teaching. One of the famous social media is Instagram. Instagram is a social network that enables its users to take pictures and videos, and share them publicly or privately on the application, as well as through a variety of other social network. Through Instagram the students can post their photos or videos that can be commented by viewers. By using Instagram, teachers are offered great opportunity to develop classroom activities creatively. This paper will give an overview of the use of Instagram in teaching writing recount text in senior high school students.

scholarly journals Mobile phones as life and thought companions

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
ZhiMin Xiao
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
School Students ◽  
Mobile Phone Use ◽  
Healthy Development ◽  
Urban Rural ◽  
Potential Benefits ◽  
Will Power

According to adults who ban adolescent interactions with mobile phones in Chinese high schools, students ‘addicted’ to mobile phones lack will power and schools without a restrictive policy on mobile phone use among students on campus are ‘poor’ in quality. Upon analysis of data from 45 semi-structured interviews with second-year high school students from urban, rural, and Tibetan regions of China, this study finds that the consequences of mobile phone use are not always pre-determined. Teens do not merely use their phones to connect; they also treat them as ‘life’ and ‘thought’ companions, which they invest with feelings and thoughts that animate life experiences and catalyse healthy development. The wholesale ban on mobile phone use in school is destined to fail and risks blinding parents and educators to potential benefits the technology has to offer, for it overlooks the value of mobile phones as objects of ‘passion’ and ‘reason’, ignores the opportunity to engage with teens who make visible online the problems they struggle with offline, and disregards the need for empathic imagination.

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