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Introduction: Social obligations have a potential to clash with circadian rhythm of an individual and this is especially likely for persons with evening chrontype. Recent research has suggested that during COVID-19 restrictions some people, especially evening types, slept better than before the pandemic. We hypothesize that this is due to increased remote work that decreases conflicts between sleep timing and working h for some people. In the current study we test a hypothesis that amount of remote work is associated with improved sleep length and quality as well as decreased social jet lag among Finnish adult population. We also expect that this association is strongest among people with evening chronotype. Method(s): The sample will consist of 3500 Finnish adults representative of general population in Finland. Data collection will take place April 2022 and will be carried out by market research company Kantar. Participants will fill in a survey investigating among other things number of workdays per week they work remotely. Questions related to sleep include self-estimated sleep length, sleep quality, MEQ chronotype questionnaire and sleep and wake times during free-and workdays. Various questions about sociodemographic background variables will also be inquired. Regression models will be used to investigate associations between amount of remote work and sleep length, sleep quality, social jet lag and chronotype. Result(s): Our hypothesis is that there is a positive association between amount of remote work and sleep length and sleep quality with remote work having negative association with social jet lag. Data collection will complete in April and preliminary results will be available by autumn 2022. Conclusion(s): Social jet lag is very prevalent among adults, and this suggest that conflicts between optimal timing and duration of sleep with social obligations such as working h are common. Increased remote work opportunities might be one way to lessen these conflicts, especially for people with evening chronotypes. This study will investigate this hypothesis in a representative sample of Finnish adults.
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Background: There are over 2 billion social networking sites users worldwide and the amount of the users are rising rapidly. (Baumgartner et al., 2017;Hussain & Starcevic, 2020.) In Finland young adults are using SNS the most and are thus potentially more exposed to its effects (Baumgartner et al., 2017). For some people a pattern of problematic social networking sites (PSNS) use can be developed (Hussain & Starcevic, 2020). More knowledge is needed about how PSNS use is associated to young adult's well-being in psychosocial level and is there some background factors which are associated to PSNS use. Identifying those associations was the aim of the current study. Method: A cross-sectional study design was used. Data were collected with a national web-based survey from Finnish young adults (18-35 years old) (n=383) during autumn 2020. The questionnaire consisted of three areas: 1) background factors (e.g. gender, age, education), lifestyles, loneliness, quality of life;2) use of digital technologies and SNS (e.g. frequency and volume of use of digital devices, problematic SNS, use of SNS during the COVID-19 pandemic);3) psychosocial well-being (e.g. depression, social pressure). Results: The results will be announced in the conference. Conclusions: Conclusions will be announced in the conference. This research provides new information about PSNS use and its effects to young adults' psychosocial well-being. The results can be used in student and occupational health care and the results will help to identify factors which would cause PSNS use and the resulting disadvantages.