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Background: The proliferation of COVID-19 radically altered people's daily routines over the last two years, particularly among young. Closures of schools and colleges resulted in virtual learning that increased reliance on gadgets causing digital dependency among youth. The prevalence of digital amnesia, somatic symptoms and sleep disorders among youth during this pandemic require considerable attention since it has not been addressed widely. Methods: Cross-sectional study was carried out among 326 youth aged between 18 to 25 years. Digital Amnesia Scale, Somatic Symptom Disorder-B Criteria Scale (SSD-12) and Sleep disorders Symptom Checklist (SDS-CL-17) were used to collect data from participants. Results: Significant positive relationship was found between digital amnesia, somatic symptoms and sleep disorders among youth. Youth differed significantly in their somatic symptoms based on demographic variables such as gender, family type and area of residence. Digital amnesia had significant impact on somatic symptoms through the mediation effect of insomnia and circadian rhythm dimensions of sleep disorders. Conclusion: Productive use of digital devices would help youth reduce digital amnesia. Practicing digital break/digital detox could also help them improve their cognitive, affective and behavioural aspects, as well as their quality of sleep.
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Psychologists can play an important role in understanding and promoting Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) as many of the SDGs are connected to both the science and profession of psychology that address prominent global challenges we face such as improving good health and wellbeing. This study aimed at exploring the association between problematic internet use, psychological wellbeing and sleep disorders among youth during COVID-19 pandemic. 448 college students were selected through stratified random sampling and the data was collected using Internet usage scale by Robinson and Mukundan, 2016;General health questionnaire - 28 by Goldberg, 1978, and Sleep disorders symptom checklist-17 by Klingman, Jungquist and Perlis, 2017. Results revealed that the problematic internet use of youth had a significant positive association with poor psychological wellbeing and sleep disorders. Linear regression model depicted that 19% of psychological wellbeing and 12% of sleep disorders were predicted by browsing sexual sites and influence on behaviour dimensions of problematic internet use. © The Electrochemical Society
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Sustainable Development Goal-3 attempts to achieve health and well-being for all. Due to Covid-19 pandemic the general population across the globe have witnessed adverse mental health problems. This posed multiple challenges in ensuring wellbeing for all. In this context, this study is attempted to explore the relationship between big five personality traits and depression among general population during COVID-19 pandemic and the mediation role of health anxiety and coronavirus anxiety in relationship between personality and depression. Incidental sampling technique is utilized to collect the data using Google Form. Participants (N=216) filled up the questionnaires such as Big Five Inventory -10 Whitely Index 14, Coronavirus Anxiety Scale and Patient Health questionnaire-9. Results revealed that extraversion, agreeableness and conscientiousness factors of personality had negative relationship with health anxiety, coronavirus anxiety and depression where as neuroticism had significant positive association. Multiple regression analysis revealed that 9% of variance in depression can be explained by personality factors and 32.5% of variance was accounted by health anxiety and corona virus anxiety with respect to depression. Parallel mediation analysis indicated that extraversion factor had significant negative total effect on depression where as neuroticism factor had significant positive total effect on depression. The results and implications are discussed in the article. © The Electrochemical Society