Assessing the smartphone addiction risk and its associations with personality traits among adolescents

Cocoradă, Elena; Maican, Cătălin; Cazan, Ana-Maria; Maican, Maria Anca

doi:10.1016/j.childyouth.2018.08.006

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“…Results showed that smartphone usage duration was strongly associated with smartphone overuse, consistent with previous studies [21,[36][37][38]. Correlating, smartphone usage duration presented the strongest direct effects on smartphone overuse [37]. Further, adolescents with higher smartphone usage and for longer durations were aware of their addictive behavior and did not consider it problematic [21,38].…”

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A Systematic Study on the Reliability and Validity of the Japanese Smartphone Addiction Scale among the Youth in Japan

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Kaneita

Itani

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Background: Few studies in Japan have investigated smartphone addiction utilizing an international scale. This study aimed to evaluate the reliability and validity of the Japanese version of the Smartphone Addiction Scale (SAS) in Japanese youths and to examine the factors underlying smartphone overuse. Methods: We conducted a questionnaire survey in 2018 with participants from one high school (n=1,050) and one vocational school (n=83; age range, 15-24 years; median age, 17 years) in Japan. Data from 1,037 (male: 60.8%, n=631) questionnaires were analyzed. Results: Factor analysis showed six factors with factor loading ranging from 0.42 to 0.72 for the Japanese version of the SAS. Cronbach’s alpha was 0.94 for the 33 items in this scale. The scale showed good reliability for test-retest scores ( intraclass correlation coefficient 3,1 =0.92). Multiple linear regression analyses showed that the factors related to smartphone overuse were female gender, long smartphone usage duration, poor mental health, contact with virtual friends, and being a smartphone zombie. Contact with family and real friends were not associated with smartphone overuse. Conclusions: Although smartphone overuse differs depending on one’s cultural and social background, the Japanese version of the SAS is as good as the other language versions. Thus, this scale was shown to be reliable and valid in the Japanese youth.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 87%

A Systematic Study on the Reliability and Validity of the Japanese Smartphone Addiction Scale among the Youth in Japan

Otsuka

Kaneita

Itani

et al. 2020

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“…The second theory, the theory of reasoned action (Fishbein & Ajzen, 1975), explains that a person's actual behavior is determined by their intention to behave in a certain way, being influenced both by their own attitudes and the social context. The attitudes towards the smartphone (positive, negative, fear of missing out, and task switching) were considered key predictors of addiction [62]. This perspective focuses on the intrapersonal reasons a person may fall into SA, with positive attitudes potentially bringing about positive reinforcement to keep engaging in the cycle of excessive smartphone use.…”

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Does Smartphone Addiction Fall on a Continuum of Addictive Behaviors?

Sussman

2020

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Due to the high accessibility and mobility of smartphones, widespread and pervasive smartphone use has become the social norm, exposing users to various health and other risk factors. There is, however, a debate on whether addiction to smartphone use is a valid behavioral addiction that is distinct from similar conditions, such as Internet and gaming addiction. The goal of this review is to gather and integrate up-to-date research on measures of smartphone addiction (SA) and problematic smartphone use (PSU) to better understand (a) if they are distinct from other addictions that merely use the smartphone as a medium, and (b) how the disorder(s) may fall on a continuum of addictive behaviors that at some point could be considered an addiction. A systematic literature search adapted from the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) method was conducted to find all relevant articles on SA and PSU published between 2017 and 2019. A total of 108 articles were included in the current review. Most studies neither distinguished SA from other technological addictions nor clarified whether SA was an addiction to the actual smartphone device or to the features that the device offers. Most studies also did not directly base their research on a theory to explain the etiologic origins or causal pathways of SA and its associations. Suggestions are made regarding how to address SA as an emerging behavioral addiction.

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“…The personal factors in smartphone addiction include personality (Cocorada, Maican, Cazan, & Maican, 2018;Gao, Xiang, Zhang, Zhang, & Mei, 2017), psychological problems such as anxiety, depression (Chen et al, 2017;Long et al, 2016), somatization and hostility symptoms (Fırat et al, 2018), quality of life (Kumcagiz, 2019), self-esteem (J. Lee et al, 2018), stress (Haug et al, 2015;Long et al, 2016) and income (Chen et al, 2017).…”

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“…Based on the research conducted by Cocorada (2018) (Cocorada et al, 2018) on adolescents in Romania, they stated that personalities with high neuroticism will increase the risk factors for smartphone addiction. High neuroticism tends to lead to difficulties when building relationships with other people.…”

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Predictive Risk Factors of Smartphone Addiction in Adolescents: A Systematic Review

Fauzi

Yusuf

Mundakir

2020

J. Ners

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Introduction: Smartphone addiction often occurs in adolescents. The purpose of this systematic review was to identify the predictors of smartphone addiction in adolescents.Methods: The method used in this systematic review consisted of 5 stages: (1) the identification of the instruments used in the literature (database search); (2) the identification of the relevant literature based on the title and abstract; (3) the inclusion and exclusion criteria; (4) getting the full-text literature and (5) grading based on the literature component and the analysis of the selected instruments. The databases used in the literature search were Scopus, PubMed, Science Direct and Springer Link from 2013 - 2018. The criteria for the included articles were that they used a cross-sectional design and involved adolescents as the sample.Results: 17 of 829 articles met the inclusion criteria. The predictors of smartphone addiction were broadly divided into 3, namely personal factors, interpersonal factors and behavioral factors. These 3 factors are related to one another.Conclusion: It is necessary to do further research within a case-control study to strengthen this systematic review.

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Assessing the smartphone addiction risk and its associations with personality traits among adolescents

Cited by 90 publications

References 59 publications

A Systematic Study on the Reliability and Validity of the Japanese Smartphone Addiction Scale among the Youth in Japan

A Systematic Study on the Reliability and Validity of the Japanese Smartphone Addiction Scale among the Youth in Japan

Does Smartphone Addiction Fall on a Continuum of Addictive Behaviors?

Predictive Risk Factors of Smartphone Addiction in Adolescents: A Systematic Review

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