Front Psychol: Smartphone use may bring us a good mood

In a research report published in the journal Frontiers in Psychology, researchers from the University of Basel and other institutions pointed out that targeted smartphone operation may help quickly improve an individual's mood.

In the article, the researchers found that after participants used a five-minute video tutorial on their smartphones, they felt more awake, calm and in a much better mood; participants chose many established or more modern psychotherapy exercise modules, such as micro-interventions, etc. For example, some participants could recall emotional experiences during the exercise, while other subjects would repeat short sentences or numerical sequences in a meditative mode, or show them with facial movements; participants could record their emotions on their smartphones and answer some short questions before and after operating the phone. Those individuals who improved their mood through simple mobile phone operations would benefit long-term, and their mood also improved overall during the two-week study.

The use of modern communication technology can help improve the body's mental health, and now this has become a hot topic for scientists studying mobile health. In recent years, scientists have conducted in-depth research on the help of complex Internet-based therapy programs for individuals. However, so far, researchers may have paid little attention to the role of smartphone-assisted micro-interventions in improving individual mental health.

Researcher Tegethoff said that the findings of this article suggest that micro-interventions based on smartphones may be effective in improving individuals' daily moods, and that applications such as these may also provide some psychiatric treatment options for some patients.

Now researchers need to conduct more extensive research to help understand the effect of smartphone-based micro-interventions on improving the body's mood. At the same time, they also hope to conduct in-depth research on patients with some psychological disorders. Researchers believe that methods such as smartphone interventions may be very important for the later development of new personalized therapies to improve people's health. Later researchers will continue to expand the depth and scope of the research, and they look forward to more research results. (Bioon.com)