Impact of Technology on Mental Health and Wellbeing

This literature review explores the impact of technology on mental health and wellbeing of individuals. It discusses the positive and negative effects of technology, as well as recommendations for managing its use.

Systematic literature
review

TABLE OF CONTENT
INTRODUCTION................................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY......................................................................................................................................3
Impact of technology on health and wellbeing of individuals....................................................3
Positive impact of technologies on mental health and wellbeing of individuals........................4
Negative impact of technologies on mental health and wellbeing of individuals......................6
Recommendation........................................................................................................................7
CONCLUSION...................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES.....................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
There are drastic changes and innovation in technologies due to globalisation and
changes in taste and preferences of people so it has adversely impacted lifestyles and wellbeing
of individual. People are making more and more use of innovative technologies to perform their
respective task as it provides them ease and comfort. There are both positive and negative
impact of technologies on mental health and wellbeing of people. Most of the business are
making use of digital technologies to grab information about their customers so that they can
formulates differentiate strategies to motivate them to make purchased form specific firm as
compared to another. This report is literature review on impact of technology on lifestyle
management for mental health and well being. It discussed the way innovation in technology
has make life’s of people better and effective or enhance their well-being.
MAIN BODY
Impact of technology on health and wellbeing of individuals
As per view of Siegel and Dorner, (2017) In recent world most of the individual are using
innovative technologies and electronic devices such as laptop, computer, smart phones and
other to connect with each other’s or exchange relevant information. Technologies have make
lifestyles of people better as they are able to know about foreign trends and culture or learn
new way of doing particular things. Social media is platforms that have increased knowledge
and skills of people as they are able to easily learn about new techniques and trends in foreign
countries thus enhance their living standard. It provide platform where kids, children and adult
may have fun and enjoyment or entertainment by watching videos and playing games. 2 billion
people staying across worldwide are using both Facebook and Instragram monthly for their
entertainment and personal satisfaction of needs. Technologies have make their life easy as
they can share lot of information with people that are staying away within a minutes. It can be
stated that interaction on social media has majorly impacted on individual satisfaction level and
well being as they are able to connect with number of people in a meanwhile. They does not
have to travel to far place to share or exchanges their information as technologies have

provided them convince and ease. There are several lecture and learning program on various
videos of You tube which helps student to learn information easily.
Positive impact of technologies on mental health and wellbeing of individuals
As illustrated by O'Leary and et.al., (2017) there are some more impacted of technologies
on new generation, people or business man such as it have reduce overall cost of operation of
several activities of firm. Now manager can easily market or promote products and services of
firm by use of innovative technologies or social media platform that is used by various
individual. It can create strong brand image, awareness of enterprise in minds and heart of
customers as they are able to get lot of information through such medium. Younger generation
have less time so they likes to have online shopping as products or services are delivered to
their doorsteps within minimum time and cost. Thus, they became aware of the way new
technologies can be used to select specific products range for better satisfaction of their needs.
Manager can also conduct market research by use of information technology as it helps in
collecting and analysing large amount of data so that accurate decision or strategies can be
made for satisfaction of needs. Company can able to build and retained strong relationship with
diverse individual by use of new technologies as they can easily share their feedback, likes or
comment on official websites of firm. Thus, other people by reviewing experienced of previous
customers can able to make accurate choice regarding purchased of products and services from
one company to another for fulfilment of their respective requirements. Another impact of
technology is that it have contributed towards optimum utilisation of resources thereby
reduced amount of wastage, cost in manufacturing products. Companies are able to delivered
qualitative services or products to end customers at minimum cost due to improvement in
technology. Thus it has increased knowledge, skills and capabilities of people to find new ideas
or innovative method to satisfy customer’s requirements. It has also increases level of
competition within country as new companies are coming with innovative technologies and
ideas to cover large market share and profitability. Most of the people are able to connect and
get aware about sustainable use of resources and protection of environment through recent

technologies. So, as per author technologies have improved lifestyles of people or enhanced
their living by providing them better services at minimum cost for qualitative experienced.
As per view of Yamin, (2019) Technologies have contributed in effective interconnection
between worlds and promote globalisation that is exchange of products and services to fulfil
requirements of countries. Now people do not have to waste their time while standing in line in
order to book tickets or hotel for enjoying their vacation. People can easily review and compare
prices, products or services that are offered by company as compared to another thus make
accurate and timely decision so technology have increased satisfaction level of various
individuals. Innovative technologies have contributed in improvement in quality of life of
people, better treatment of various diseases and medical facilities. Artificial intelligence is
another technology that helps in reducing requirements of more labour thus leading to
increasing employment rate within economy. Thus, operating expense of firm can be reduced
easily as less number of employees is required to performed task. Children can learn new
technical and other skills, knowledge very quickly by use of social media such as Facebook,
Twitter and instragram. But long term use of digital technology by children and younger
generation may cause adverse impact on their mental health that is depression or anxiety.
Search engines such as Google, yahoo are mostly used by people to search or gathered relevant
information to enhance their knowledge. Thus it can be stated that technologies has upgraded
lifestyles and standard of people that are living in society. Technologies have helped in creating
more employment opportunities and demand of specialised skills so that task can be completed
in minimum time and cost for delivering better services to customers. It also helps people to
easily track their chronic diseases, diets and mental health information thus they are able to
control and maintained better health and lifestyles.
From the point view of Brotchie and et.al., (2017) large numbers of individuals spend
their most of the time using smart phones or laptop for having fun that lead to mental stress
and affect on well-being of people for long term. Kids and younger people are facing anxiety
and depression or increased mental stress due to more use of innovative technologies so it
have negatively impacted on health and wellbeing of individuals. Therefore, it have created lot
of mental stress and increased level of depression among individuals.

Negative impact of technologies on mental health and wellbeing of individuals
As noted by Berryman, Ferguson and Negy, (2018) there are several negative impact of
technology on mental health and well-being of individual. Such as one of the ill impacts of
technology is digital eye strain as most of the people gaze their phones or screen of electronic
device for longer period of time and also forget to blink eyes that resulted in digital eye strain.
More use of technologies lead to headaches, neck and shoulder pains thereby affecting health
and well being of individuals. Thus huge numbers of individual are facing from problem of
digital eye strain that is harmful in long run. Another effect of technology on health of people is
that sleeping disorder as number of individual likes to leave their sleep to use their smart
phones or devices. Approximately 70% mobile owner wants to have their phones next to their
bed so that they could not miss anything which resulted in poor sleeping habits and mental
stress. Whereas other individual wake up from their sleep due to lightening or sound of
notification thus it create problem in poor sleep. Younger generation use their phones till late
night thus lead to poor health, mental stress and sleep. They wants to spend their time alone in
order to have entertainment at social media platform thus it have created feeling of anxiety and
depression among younger generation. Therefore it can be stated that it cause harm to their
eye sight and improper sleep which lead to irritation and depression of among people.
As suggested by Coyne. and et.al., (2020) it has also resulted in physical inactivity as
most of the kids, children spend their time while playing games and watching videos thus
avoiding exercises. It has resulted in more chance of obesity among people as they sit at
particular place to watch different video and play games in smart phones. It stated that more
than 3 million people use social media every day to interact or contact with each other’s and it
have become addiction for large number of individual in society. Overuses of such technologies
have adversely impacted on well-being of several people as it has resulted in rise in depression,
mental pressure especially among teenagers. It has also increased chance of cyber bulling and
threat to information or crucial data of people as number of hacker tries to hack account to
make use of information for undesirable purpose. More use of social media have resulted
increase chance of threat to security and privacy of information as hacker tries to make use of
personal information or detailed for undesirable purpose that adversely impact on health and

mental status of individuals. It can be stated that digital life is a threat to political, economic
and psychological well being of individuals. Therefore another negative impacted is that people
are tension and in secured to use social media for any purpose because of increasing crime and
threat to personal information.
Recommendation
Berry and et.al., (2018) One of the main concern of using social media or innovative
technology is that more addiction of kids, younger generation to internet and smart phones for
having entertainment and fun. It often leads to diagnosable mental illness that is symptoms of
low self –esteem and loneliness and depression among large number of individuals. Therefore it
have been notice that high use of screen in adolescents has reduces overall physical activities
thus increasing number of obesity patients and lower well being of people. As per author every
single child out of 5 children between age group of 13-18 is facing serious mental illness such as
8% are facing anxiety disorder, 11% mood disorder and 10% behaviour disorder. Therefore
various steps need to be taken by parent in order to save children to make misuse or overuse of
technologies for their better health and wellbeing. Parent of children needs to set appropriate
time limit for which they should use innovative technologies so that it cannot become
addiction. Lot of personal data of business and individual are lost by use of innovative
technologies or social media such as bank detail or preferences of people so that various plan
can be formed to motivated them to perform task in particular manner. So, people in order to
save their personal data or information needs to make use of safe and secure password, and
does not accept any cookies or open any email that is come from unknown sources. Business
can make use of innovative technologies to expand its business operation across worldwide and
better customer’s satisfaction.
CONCLUSION
It can be concluded from above report that Technology has make life of people
better and easy as various tasks can be completed within limited time frame and cost. It can
also be illustrated that people by use of technology feels more connected to each other as they
can share their feeling ideas to other individual without any problem. At the same time social

media have resulted in increases number of diseases and mental stress among adult and
younger generation such as depression and anxiety or obesity due to less physical activities.
REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Siegel, C. and Dorner, T. E., 2017. Information technologies for active and assisted living—
Influences to the quality of life of an ageing society. International journal of medical
informatics, 100. pp.32-45.
Brotchie, J and et.al., 2017. The future of urban form: the impact of new technology. Routledge.
Berryman, C., Ferguson, C. J. and Negy, C., 2018. Social media use and mental health among
young adults. Psychiatric quarterly, 89(2). pp.307-314.
Coyne, S. M. and et.al., 2020. Does time spent using social media impact mental health?: An
eight year longitudinal study. Computers in Human Behavior, 104. p.106160.
Berry, N and et.al., 2018. Social media and its relationship with mood, self‐esteem and paranoia
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