Psychology Department, Florida Gulf Coast University, The Water School, Ft. Myers, FL, USA.
Florida Gulf Coast University, Ft. Myers, FL, USA.
BMC Psychol. 2024 Feb 26;12(1):97. doi: 10.1186/s40359-024-01595-y.
Affect can influence people's perceptions, decisions, and the way they make sense of an experience. Some studies show that having one's cell phone removed will lead to negative emotional reactions, while others have found no significant impact on how we feel. In this paper we investigate the impact of cell phone possession and removal on participant's affective state.
We use a randomized double-blind procedure to examine whether cell phone removal enhances negativity, promotes positivity, or is emotionally inconsequential. We measure affect using a PANAS self-report scale as well as a less transparent temporal-estimation procedure.
Our findings suggest that cell phone possession or removal has no influence on a person's affective state.
Measured through both the PANAS self-report scale and temporal estimation task, affect remained consistent regardless of cell phone possession. These results suggest that cell phones may not carry the emotional weight often attributed to them. This finding challenges a common theme revolving around the negative emotional impact of cell phones and technology. Consequently, these findings may have important implications for the generally perceived notion that cell phones are having a negative effect on people's emotions.
情感会影响人们的感知、决策以及对体验的理解方式。一些研究表明，手机被拿走会导致负面的情绪反应，而另一些研究则没有发现手机对我们的情绪有显著影响。在本文中，我们研究了手机的拥有和移除对参与者情感状态的影响。
我们采用随机双盲程序来检验手机的移除是否会增强负面情绪、促进正面情绪，或者对情绪没有影响。我们使用 PANAS 自我报告量表以及不太透明的时间估计程序来衡量情感。
我们的发现表明，手机的拥有或移除对人的情感状态没有影响。
通过 PANAS 自我报告量表和时间估计任务的测量，无论是否拥有手机，情感都保持一致。这些结果表明，手机可能没有通常认为的那样具有强烈的情感负荷。这一发现挑战了一个普遍存在的主题，即手机对情绪的负面影响。因此，这些发现可能对普遍认为手机对人们的情绪有负面影响的观点产生重要影响。
