PONE-D-21-20673Smartphone Use Behavior and Quality of Life: What Is the Role of Awareness?PLOS ONE

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Reviewer #1: 57) It is worth mentioning that QOL research spans the fields not only of psychology, philosophy, social psychology, but also economics. For example, a noteworthy QOL analysis was performed in DOI: 10.1080 / 1331677X.2021.1956361

143, 179) should improve the description of the methodology for determining the essence of such smartphone usability latent variables as ‘aware’ and ‘unaware’ use behavior modes. In our opinion, it can be learned starting from line 323 of table 1.

185, 195, 219) should improve the description of the methodology for determining the essence of such latent QOL variables as 'competence,' 'functioning,' and 'positive feeling.' In our opinion, it can be found starting from line 325 table 2.

Tables 1 and 2 are mentioned in the text in lines 93, 166, although given in lines 323 and 325.

257) In the Results section, you should leave the information in paragraph 3.4, which clearly corresponds to the title of the article "Smartphone Use Behavior and Quality of Life: What Is the Role of Awareness?"

115) the article does not substantiate the representativeness of the sample of 215 respondents.

323, 325) the name of tables 1 and 2 should be changed, because, as we understand here, the correlation coefficients are given.

323, 325) the names of the graphs in the header are not fully displayed, it is desirable to place the words in a different order so that they can be read by turning the sheet clockwise

291) Figure 3 is mentioned in line 291, and is given in line 316; the signature of the figure is not on the same page with the figure; to make Figure 3 more compact, variable signatures can be matched to Tables 1 and 2: x1-x12, y1-y22.

377) the name of table 3 is detached from the body of the table

368-369) there are errors in the sentence

Reviewer #2: Other benefits of using smartphones and ICT should be considered.

It is necessary to describe how the sample was formed and assess the reliability of the information obtained by the questionnaire.

Some literary sources are outdated.

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