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Digital Wellness: Integrating Wellness in Everyday Life With Digital Content and Learning Technologies

Digital Wellness: Integrating Wellness in Everyday Life With Digital Content and Learning Technologies
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Author(s): Chadwick Royal (North Carolina Central University, USA), Suzan Wasik (North Carolina Central University, USA), Robert Horne (North Carolina Central University, USA), Levette S. Dames (North Carolina Central University, USA)and Gwen Newsome (North Carolina Central University, USA)
Copyright: 2019
Pages: 15
Source title: Multigenerational Online Behavior and Media Use: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Information Resources Management Association (USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-7909-0.ch019

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Abstract

Are you addicted to your phone? Using the term “addiction” when discussing activities involving technologies is a metaphor. It is intended to portray behaviors that are similar to what is experienced during a drug addiction (Essig, 2012), but it is not an actual addiction. Granted, the metaphor is successful because it relates the experience of being “out of control”. It is proposed that counselors and educators approach problematic behavior from more of a perspective of “wellness” and healthy behaviors - as opposed to approaching it from an addiction model or concept. Digital Wellness is the optimum state of health and well-being that each individual using technology is capable of achieving. The purpose of this chapter is to present the Digital Wellness Model (Royal, 2014) and provide recommendations for how the model can be implemented by users of technology. Specific strategies for promoting digital wellness are shared.

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