Screen consumption multiplied during the pandemic.
For young people and some groups of adults, screens they represent the main goal of daily entertainment and work. This need to always be in front of an illuminated device has been heightened by the pandemic and its effects are still present in many consumers.
It is so the Argentines pass 9 hours and 38 minutes a day looking at different screens, which equates to approx 147 days a year. It is the fifth country in the world to use them the longest, behind South Africa (10 hours and 46 minutes), the Philippines (10 hours and 27 minutes), Brazil (10 hours and 19 minutes), according to the consultancy. sort list.
A study by the Gino Germani Institute of UBA consulted parents at the end of the pandemic on the technological limits imposed on their children and all recognized that in this period children could use the devices with more time than usual.
For this reason, the exit from the pandemic generated in Argentines a profound process of technological intoxication cell phones, TVs and computers, which together with a sedentary lifestyle are “the worst vices that are difficult to abandon”, according to the company Readiness.
The sample indicates that 47% of respondents were too aware and addicted to screen consumption, while 38% said they spent a lot of time connected.
Screen addiction: the negative consequences
Your mobile phone, tablet and computer, your favorite devices. photo EFE
“It is clear that the pandemic has upset the balance between work and professional life. When that balance has been broken, mainly by adding work at home, many consequences have appeared that involve more attention to the screen, being always connected, which is not so easy to start over once installed, ”he analyzed. Giovanni Gallo MartinezGlobal Readiness CEO.
Due to this increasingly sustained dependence on screens, a state of greater sedentary lifestylewhere Argentines spend more time at home, reduce physical activity, or they don’t even have the courage to do outdoor activities or just move somewhere else. This was stated by 31% of the interviewees.
According to the survey, the main consequences of this need for quiet, to which the cold is now added, have to do with a disorder in timetables (food, rest, leisure, with 19%), imbalance in the diet (higher consumption of fats, sweets, carbohydrates, with 18%).
The cell phone has replaced communication and other physical games among the youngest.
There is also an imbalance between work and personal life, with a invasion of working hours in moments or spaces that a person had for leisure, even with 18%. For their part, 8% of respondents said they had increased their consumption of alcoholic beverages.
Properly managing the time spent using electronic devices is a daily task. For example, it is possible to establish family agreements, plans for the measured use of social networks and parental control, which allow you to establish rules and limits of use, and facilitate dialogue, allowing you to raise doubts, concerns and interests.
“It is important to segment and redirect time towards a balance that restores stability, so it is essential to adopt healthy habits, such as leaving the house in your free time to exercise, see friends or simply walk,” concluded Galo Martínez.
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Source: Clarin
