Bedtime Smart Phone Usage and Its Effects on Work-Related Behaviour at Workplace
The over usage and over dependency on digital devices, like smartphones, has been considered as a growing international epidemic. The increased dependency on gadgets, especially smartphones for personal and official uses, has also brought many detrimental effects on individual users. Hence it is vit...
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doaj-f178d9d7d65b4622a871ef89a86248102021-08-18T08:27:02ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782021-08-011210.3389/fpsyg.2021.698413698413Bedtime Smart Phone Usage and Its Effects on Work-Related Behaviour at WorkplaceAbida Ellahi0Yasir Javed1Samina Begum2Rabia Mushtaq3Mobashar Rehman4Hafiz Mudassir Rehman5Department of Management Sciences, Abbottabad University of Science and Technology, Abbottabad, PakistanHigher Colleges of Technology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab EmiratesDepartment of Management Sciences, Abbottabad University of Science and Technology, Abbottabad, PakistanSchool of Management Sciences, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, PakistanFaculty of Information and Communication Technology, Tunku Abdul Rahman University, Kampar, MalaysiaFaculty of Business and Finance, Tunku Abdul Rahman University, Kampar, MalaysiaThe over usage and over dependency on digital devices, like smartphones, has been considered as a growing international epidemic. The increased dependency on gadgets, especially smartphones for personal and official uses, has also brought many detrimental effects on individual users. Hence it is vital to understand the negative effects of smartphone usage on human. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the effects of bedtime smartphone usage on work performances, interpersonal conflicts, and work engagement, via the mediating role of sleep quality among employees. Using a cross-sectional study design, a questionnaire-based field survey was conducted on 315 employees who participated as respondents. The results confirmed the negative effects of bedtime smartphone usage on sleep quality. Along with it, the effects of sleep quality on work performances, work engagements and interpersonal conflicts were also proven to be statistically significant. Regarding the mediating role of sleep quality, it was empirically evident that sleep quality mediates the relationship between bedtime smartphone usage with work performances and interpersonal conflicts. The findings revealed that bedtime smartphone usage reduces sleep quality among the employees, resulting in lower work performances and engagements while contributing to higher interpersonal conflicts. The findings concluded that smartphone usage before sleep increases the prospects of employees to be less productive, less engaged, and have more workplace conflicts. The findings warrant the continued managerial as well as academic research attention, as the smartphones are now used by many organisations to run businesses as well.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.698413/fullsmart phone usagesleep qualitywork performanceinterpersonal conflictswork engagementbedtime |
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Bedtime Smart Phone Usage and Its Effects on Work-Related Behaviour at Workplace |
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Bedtime Smart Phone Usage and Its Effects on Work-Related Behaviour at Workplace |
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Bedtime Smart Phone Usage and Its Effects on Work-Related Behaviour at Workplace |
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The over usage and over dependency on digital devices, like smartphones, has been considered as a growing international epidemic. The increased dependency on gadgets, especially smartphones for personal and official uses, has also brought many detrimental effects on individual users. Hence it is vital to understand the negative effects of smartphone usage on human. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the effects of bedtime smartphone usage on work performances, interpersonal conflicts, and work engagement, via the mediating role of sleep quality among employees. Using a cross-sectional study design, a questionnaire-based field survey was conducted on 315 employees who participated as respondents. The results confirmed the negative effects of bedtime smartphone usage on sleep quality. Along with it, the effects of sleep quality on work performances, work engagements and interpersonal conflicts were also proven to be statistically significant. Regarding the mediating role of sleep quality, it was empirically evident that sleep quality mediates the relationship between bedtime smartphone usage with work performances and interpersonal conflicts. The findings revealed that bedtime smartphone usage reduces sleep quality among the employees, resulting in lower work performances and engagements while contributing to higher interpersonal conflicts. The findings concluded that smartphone usage before sleep increases the prospects of employees to be less productive, less engaged, and have more workplace conflicts. The findings warrant the continued managerial as well as academic research attention, as the smartphones are now used by many organisations to run businesses as well. |
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