Digital Dependence in Organizations: Impacts on the Physical and Mental Health of Employees

Digital Dependence is a person's persistent inability to regulate digital devices on which they have become highly dependent. Internet dependence has been described since the mid-1990s, and studies on this topic have intensified since 2010. This type of individual dependence has received consid...

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Veröffentlicht in:Clinical practice and epidemiology in mental health 2023, Vol.19 (1), p.e174501792212300-e174501792212300
Hauptverfasser: Gonçalves, Lucio Lage, Nardi, Antonio Egidio, King, Anna Lucia Spear
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:Digital Dependence is a person's persistent inability to regulate digital devices on which they have become highly dependent. Internet dependence has been described since the mid-1990s, and studies on this topic have intensified since 2010. This type of individual dependence has received considerable published literature, but it is new in the collective setting of organizations, offering the hypothesis that it can also be collective, given the impacts it can provide. Research has evolved geographically from three countries to 17 since the beginning of the last decade, with 7 new scales for digital dependence. There were 13 new revalidations of the Nomophobia Questionnaire (NMP-Q), with an increase from 1,000 to 13,000 volunteers. Geographical evolution and an increase in the number of scales and volunteers and their different profiles were described. New approaches reinforce evolution and its impacts on human behavior. This study provides historical insight into Digital Dependence and opens new prospects for research on the differences between nations and people, sexes, professionals, and the need for further research in organizations.
ISSN:1745-0179
1745-0179
DOI:10.2174/17450179-v19-e230109-2022-17