Detecting Longitudinal Trends between Passively Collected Phone Use and Anxiety among College Students.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Existing theories and empirical works link phone use with anxiety; however, most leverage subjective self-reports of phone use (e.g., validated questionnaires) that may not correspond well with true behavior. Moreover, most works linking phone use with anxiety do not interrogate associations within a temporal framework. Accordingly, the present study sought to investigate the utility of passively sensed phone use as a longitudinal predictor of anxiety symptomatology within a population particularly vulnerable to experiencing anxiety.

Methods

Using data from the GLOBEM study, which continuously collected longitudinal behavioral data from a college cohort of N = 330 students, weekly PHQ-4 anxiety subscale scores across 3 years (2019-2021) were paired with m

SUBMITTER: Gyorda JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11521436 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature