{"id":177552,"date":"2023-12-06T15:24:05","date_gmt":"2023-12-06T21:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/digital-media-overuse-scale-a-forward-thinking-instrument-for-psychologists-and-clinicians"},"modified":"2023-12-06T15:24:05","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T21:24:05","slug":"digital-media-overuse-scale-a-forward-thinking-instrument-for-psychologists-and-clinicians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/digital-media-overuse-scale-a-forward-thinking-instrument-for-psychologists-and-clinicians","title":{"rendered":"Digital Media Overuse Scale: A Forward-Thinking Instrument for Psychologists and Clinicians"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Is phone and digital media addiction real? If so, what steps can be taken to mitigate it? This is something that a recent study<\/a> published in the journal Technology, Mind, and Behavior<\/em> hopes to address as a team of researchers discuss a new instrument called the Digital Media Overuse Scale (dMOS) to determine a person\u2019s level of addiction to digital media such as their phone. This study comes at a time when smartphones and digital media device technologies are only improving and holds the potential to help scientists and clinicians make the connection between technology and psychology.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe wanted to create a tool that was immediately useful in the clinic and lab, that reflects current understandings about how digital addiction works, that wouldn\u2019t go obsolete once the next big tech change hits,\u201d said Dr. Daniel Hipp<\/a>, who is a research consultant at the Digital Media Treatment & Education Center in Boulder, Colorado, and lead author of the study.<\/p>\n

For the study, the researchers developed dMOS to address the outdated methods pertaining to bridging the gap between technology and psychology, such as how we talk about technology and asking outdated questions. The goal of dMOS is to allow scientists and clinicians to conduct a variety of analyses pertaining to digital media usage, including a broad analysis such as social media as a whole or a more focused analysis such a specific social media platform such as Facebook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Is phone and digital media addiction real? If so, what steps can be taken to mitigate it? This is something that a recent study published in the journal Technology, Mind, and Behavior hopes to address as a team of researchers discuss a new instrument called the Digital Media Overuse Scale (dMOS) to determine a person\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":706,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/706"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}