Digital dementia and its impact on human cognitive and emotional functioning

Horoszkiewicz, Bartosz. Digital dementia and its impact on human cognitive and emotional functioning. Journal of Education, Health and Sport. 2022;12(11):290-296. eISSN 2391-8306. DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.12775/JEHS.2022.12.11.038 https://apcz.umk.pl/JEHS/article/view/39939 https://zenodo.org/record/7301781 The journal has had 40 points in Ministry of Education and Science of Poland parametric evaluation. Annex to the announcement of the Minister of Education and Science of December 21, 2021. No. 32343. Has a Journal's Unique Identifier: 201159. Scientific disciplines assigned: Physical Culture Sciences (Field of Medical sciences and health sciences); Health Sciences (Field of Medical Sciences and Health Sciences). Punkty Ministerialne z 2019 - aktualny rok 40 punktów. Załącznik do komunikatu Ministra Edukacji i Nauki z dnia 21 grudnia 2021 r. Lp. 32343. Posiada Unikatowy Identyfikator Czasopisma: 201159. Przypisane dyscypliny naukowe: Nauki o kulturze fizycznej (Dziedzina nauk medycznych i nauk o zdrowiu); Nauki o zdrowiu (Dziedzina nauk medycznych i nauk o zdrowiu). © The Authors 2022; This article is published with open access at Licensee Open Journal Systems of Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author (s) and source are credited. This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non commercial license Share alike. (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited. The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests regarding the publication of this paper. Received: 11.09.2022. Revised: 20.10.2022. Accepted: 06.11.2022. Digital dementia and its impact on human cognitive and emotional functioning Bartosz Horoszkiewicz, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7321-514X e-mail: bhoroszkiewicz00@gmail.com SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Psychology Poland, 61-719 Poznań, Kutrzeby 10 Abstract Digital dementia is a term coined by Spitzer and associated with a decline in mental abilities in memory, attention, and thinking by people who overuse new technologies. The aim of the study was to analyse the scientific literature in the field of new technology on digital dementia and its impact on human cognitive and emotional functioning. The study was based on a content analysis of current articles on Google Scholar on the topic of digital dementia. The negative phenomena associated with digital dementia and their impact on human cognitive and emotional functioning were presented. It is shown that inappropriate use of social media can be a risk factor and a source of mental health problems. A more important contemporary problem is not escaping from modern technology, but rather the rational ability to use it. Keywords: Cognitive and emotional functioning; digital dementia; new technologies; social media; mobile device