Phantom phone signals: An investigation into the prevalence and predictors of imagined cell phone signals

Tanis, Martin; Beukeboom, Camiel J.; Hartmann, Tilo; Vermeulen, Ivar

doi:10.1016/j.chb.2015.04.039

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“…In addition, this may heighten pressure to remain “in the loop” via social media, leading adolescents to engage in increased peer surveillance and monitoring behaviors, so as not to miss out on important social information, events, or gossip. Emerging research with adults on the phenomenon of “phantom phone signals” suggests that the pressure to remain constantly accessible via social media may even cause some individuals to experience the false sensation of receiving a cell phone notification (Tanis et al 2015). Interestingly, results suggest that adults reporting higher need for popularity were more likely to experience phantom phone signals (Tanis et al 2015).…”

Section: Peer Statusmentioning

confidence: 99%

Transformation of Adolescent Peer Relations in the Social Media Context: Part 2—Application to Peer Group Processes and Future Directions for Research

Nesi

Choukas‐Bradley

Prinstein

2018

Clin Child Fam Psychol Rev

201

236

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As social media use becomes increasingly widespread among adolescents, research in this area has accumulated rapidly. Researchers have shown a growing interest in the impact of social media on adolescents' peer experiences, including the ways that the social media context shapes a variety of peer relations constructs. This paper represents Part 2 of a two-part theoretical review. In this review, we offer a new model for understanding the transformative role of social media in adolescents' peer experiences, with the goal of stimulating future empirical work that is grounded in theory. The transformation framework suggests that the features of the social media context transform adolescents' peer experiences by changing their frequency or immediacy, amplifying demands, altering their qualitative nature, and/or offering new opportunities for compensatory or novel behaviors. In the current paper, we consider the ways that social media may transform peer relations constructs that often occur at the group level. Our review focuses on three key constructs: peer victimization, peer status, and peer influence. We selectively review and highlight existing evidence for the transformation of these domains through social media. In addition, we discuss methodological considerations and key conceptual principles for future work. The current framework offers a new theoretical perspective through which peer relations researchers may consider adolescent social media use.

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Section: Peer Statusmentioning

confidence: 99%

Transformation of Adolescent Peer Relations in the Social Media Context: Part 2—Application to Peer Group Processes and Future Directions for Research

Nesi

Choukas‐Bradley

Prinstein

2018

Clin Child Fam Psychol Rev

201

236

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“…As an explanation for the popularity of smartphones, both the outlined usability and functionality cannot sufficiently account for behavioral patterns which have led academic and popular science to generate labels such as addiction (Samaha & Nawi, 2016;Davies, 2017), phantom vibration (Tanis, Beukeboom, Hartmann, & Vermeulen, 2015;Knapton, 2016), phubbing (neologism: 'phone' and 'snubbing'; Roberts & David, 2016), or smombies ('smartphone' and 'zombie';Hookham, Togoh, & Yeates, 2016). Psychological research so far has focused on the use of services or applications (e.g., social media in general: Blackwell, Leaman, Tramposch, Osborne, & Liss, 2017; social networking sites: Buglass, Binder, Betts, & Underwood, 2017;Facebook specifically: Beyens, Frisen, & Eggermont, 2016;Instagram: Barry, Reiter, Anderson, Schoessler, & Sidoti, 2017) thereby rather neglecting the device which 'contains' all these services.…”

Section: Being With Your Phone 24/7: Smartphones As Digital Companionsmentioning

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Smartphones as digital companions: Characterizing the relationship between users and their phones

Carolus

Binder

Muench³

et al. 2018

New Media & Society

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Based on the idea of computers constituting social agents and referring to core characteristics of human-human relationships, this study introduces the concept of a digital companionship between smartphone users and their devices. Constituting characteristics (closeness, trust, preoccupation) and outcomes (stress, coping with stress) of social relationships were adapted to yield a model of human-smartphone relationships for empirical testing. A cross-national sample of participants (n = 1156) completed an online study which included self-report measures as well as a newly developed instrument (Positioning Others and Devices; POD) assessing the closeness to technical devices and social actors. Results showed the smartphone to be the closest device. Further, structural equation modelling lent support for the theoretical model indicating that trust and preoccupation mediate the relationship between closeness to the smartphone and stress and coping. Findings support the concept of companionship as a fruitful approach to explain smartphone-related behaviors.

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“…social anxiety and boredom (Elhai et al, 2017 ) or feeding attentional impulsiveness (Roberts et al, 2015 ). Even long-term attentional effects, the so-called phantom vibration and phantom ringing hallucinations, seem to occupy the mind of heavy mobile technology users (Lee et al, 2014 ; Tanis et al, 2015 ).…”

Section: Attentionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Contrasting Screen-Time and Green-Time: A Case for Using Smart Technology and Nature to Optimize Learning Processes

2018

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Phantom phone signals: An investigation into the prevalence and predictors of imagined cell phone signals

Cited by 23 publications

References 23 publications

Transformation of Adolescent Peer Relations in the Social Media Context: Part 2—Application to Peer Group Processes and Future Directions for Research

Transformation of Adolescent Peer Relations in the Social Media Context: Part 2—Application to Peer Group Processes and Future Directions for Research

Smartphones as digital companions: Characterizing the relationship between users and their phones

Contrasting Screen-Time and Green-Time: A Case for Using Smart Technology and Nature to Optimize Learning Processes

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