O impacto negativo de tecnologias na saúde mental: um estudo via teoria dos sistemas dinâmicos
Tipo
Dissertação
Data de publicação
2021-08-02
Periódico
Citações (Scopus)
Autores
Zara, Márcio Carlos
Orientador
Monteiro, Luiz Henrique Alves
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Membros da banca
Lopes, Paulo Batista
Schimit, Pedro Henrique Triguis
Schimit, Pedro Henrique Triguis
Programa
Engenharia Elétrica
Resumo
We are living in an era driven by technological advances that have had a major impact
on people's behavior and daily lives. The dependence on the internet and smartphones has
been occurring both in personal and professional life, and teleworking has been gaining
space and has become an increasingly common practice. However, negative psychological
e ects can be observed in individuals who compulsively use these technologies. Typical
psychological problems are stress, anxiety, and addiction. The emergence of the COVID-
19 pandemic accelerated the digitization process. Remote work has been used to minimize
the operational impact caused by the economic crisis and is also a way of reducing the
spread of the disease, through social isolation. Hence, the pandemic has caused people
to increase the number of hours they are connected to the internet, which can exacerbate
the negative e ects of using these technologies. In this work, a mathematical model, inspired
by epidemiological models, is proposed to investigate the negative e ects of using
the internet and smartphones. The model contains four ordinary di erential equations.
Each equation represents the temporal evolution of the number of individuals in one of
the four groups that compose the population. These groups are composed of individuals
who: 1) have never used these technologies, 2) are occasional or moderate users, 3) are
regular users, 4) are users who have started to develop serious mental disorders. In the
model, an individual can migrate from one group to another spontaneously or through
social contact. The model is analyzed by using the dynamical systems theory and the
results are discussed in terms of public health and labor relations.
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Palavras-chave
burnout , internet , modelo epidemiológico , sistemas dinâmicos , smartphone , uso problemático de tecnologia , workaholic
Assuntos Scopus
Citação
ZARA, Márcio Carlos. O impacto negativo de tecnologias na saúde mental: um estudo via teoria dos sistemas dinâmicos. 2021. 38 f. Dissertação (Engenharia Elétrica e Computação) - Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie, São Paulo, 2021.