Smartphones, teenagers, and parents
The title of the encounter organised by L'ideatorio, USI's service for promoting scientific culture, and the USI Institute of Public Health was "Smartphones and Teenagers." "Though we could have called it - Smartphones and Parents - because it is parents who hand out smartphones and lead by example," explained Giovanni Pellegri, head of L'ideatorio. Parents and especially mothers, given the clear majority of women in attendance at the West Campus Auditorium. During the evening, the use, and abuse, of smartphones by preadolescents and adolescents was addressed from two different viewpoints. On the one hand, the situation in Ticino, with the results of the MEDIATICINO2.0 study presented by researcher and lecturer Anne-Linda Camerini of the USI Institute of Public Health and the HappyB study presented by Laura Marciano , currently a post-doc at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; on the other hand, the experience of writer and developmental psychotherapist Alberto Pellai. MEDIATICINO2.0 is a study carried out by Universitą della Svizzera italiana with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF). Anne-Linda Camerini stressed the importance of the study, first of all, because it tells through data the situation in Ticino.
