📣 New paper! When young adults took part in a digital detox to use their phones for <2h/day, their mental health and stress improved. Great! BUT... their heart rate variability went up, indicating higher physiological stress. What’s going on? 🧵 1/3 @ehps.bsky.social #psychology
The influence of smartphone reduction on heart rate variability: a secondary analysis from a randomised controlled trial
Despite the benefits smartphone technology offers, our phones are available to us almost all of the time and excessive smartphone use may be linked to problematic behaviours and mental illness symp...
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