Designing for Digital Wellbeing

Every aspect of our everyday life has been infiltrated by technology. In many cases, technology has the potential to increase personal development and enhancing social participation. Despite these advantages, technology and digital services have the potential to have a detrimental impact on people's emotional, physical, and social wellbeing.

Screens and smart technology have transformed into amazing doors to other worlds, people, and emotions in the Digital Age, yet our relationship with our gadgets is nuanced and occasionally tense. We define digital wellbeing as a condition in which one's subjective wellbeing is preserved in a setting defined by an abundance of digital communication. Digital wellness refers to the influence of various technologies on our mental, emotional, and even physical health and refers to the pursuit of an intentional and healthy relationship with technology, both in the professional and in personal life. It's about having a positive relationship with technology, where we recognize how it may improve rather than interfere with how we perceive the world.

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Dana Rad, Ph.D., is an associate professor at Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, Romania and the head of the Center of Research, Development and Innovation in Psychology. Her areas of interest include digital wellbeing, organizational psychology, psychoinformatics, and cognitive systems engineering. Tiberiu Dughi is an associate professor at the Faculty of Educational Sciences, Psychology and Social Sciences, Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, Romania. His research and applied interests include educational psychology, personality psychology, and professional and vocational counseling. He is a psychologist supervisor in educational psychology and member of the Romanian and Belgium Psychologists Collegium. Roxana Maier, Ph.D., is an associate professor at the Faculty of Educational Sciences, Psychology, and Social Sciences at Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, Romania. She is also a psychotherapist and Experiential Psychotherapy of Unification counselor and trainer and member of the Commission of educational psychology, school and vocational counseling within the Romanian College of Psychologists. Sonia Ignat, Ph.D., is an associate professor at Faculty of Educational Sciences, Psychology and Social Sciences at Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, Romania. Her research interests include personality psychology, educational psychology, and professional and vocational counseling.

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List of contributors - Dana Rad/Gavril Rad/Edgar Demeter/Roxana Maier: Digital wellbeing or finding a balance between consciously connecting and disconnecting: A positive technology design approach - Otilia Todor/Tiberiu Dughi/Dana Dughi: Feuerstein's instrumental enrichment in online interaction and wellbeing of children - Gabriela Vancu/Anca Egerau: Impact of family interactions and emotion-based training program on aggressive behavior of adolescents within special educational centers - Gabriela Vancu/Anca Egerau: Impact of online activity upon social phobia in young adults - Vlad Adrian Geanta/Viorel Petru Ardelean: Effects of circuit training at home: Improving wellbeing and quality of life in sedentary men during the covid-19 pandemic - Zsolt Bartha/András Kokai/Gábor Kincses: Sport digitalization, between recreation and the Olympic games - Dorin Herlo/Rebecca Pui: Common concerns of the professor and the student for increasing the digital wellbeing in the educational framework - Silvia Nicoleta Mirica/Cerasela Domokos/Martin Domokos/Cristian Negrea/Eugen Bota/Adrian Nagel: Is covid-19 pandemic period the milestone for a new digitalized era in the case of physical education and sport's educational process? - Edgar Demeter/Dana Rad: Time spent on digital devices and sadness: The mediating outcome of boredom - Gabriela Kelemen: Early education: What can we do for improving quality - Camelia-Nadia Bran/Madalina Sas: Promoting children's wellbeing in primary school through the development of socio-emotional competences - Henrietta Torkos/Tabitha Bernadet Pasinszky: Digital wellbeing during online education in preschool in the context of pandemics - Cornelia Evelina Bala /Maria-Alexandra Martin: The role of emotional intelligence in the development of the wellbeing for teachers: A theoretical perspective - Alina-Maria Breaz: Attitude of people with disability towards satisfaction in work: Practical insight - Bogdan Hri cu/Cristian Negrea/Cerasela Domokos/Martin Domokos/Eugen Bota/Silvia Nicoleta Mirica/Adrian Nagel: The inequality of benefits brought by training programs with different number of weekly sessions - Cristian Negrea/Silvia Nicoleta Mirica/Cerasela Domokos/Martin Domokos/Eugen Bota/Adrian Nagel: Influences on life quality of adults with the help of digital technologies: A journey from a sedentary life to jogging - Diana Mariana (Boeriu) Sfat/Nicoleta Florica Petruse: Digital resources: A big challenge at preschool level - Remus Runcan: The reasons we need crisis intervention in time of covid-19 pandemic - Viorel Petru Ardelean/Vlad Adrian Geanta/Andreea Nicoara: Proposals for improving the wellbeing of people in the technology era: Case study on the efficiency of whole body EMS training - Dr. Sonal Mobar Roy: Deconstructing the notion of "digital wellbeing" through a postmodern lens - Alina Costin/Alina Roman: Homo connecticus and the reconstruct of the self-image through social networks