Addiction-Like Mobile Phone Behavior – Validation and Association With Problem Gambling

Development of a Mobile Phone Addiction Craving Scale and Its Validation in a Spanish Adult Population

In some people, problematic cell phone use can lead to situations in which they lose control, similar to those observed in other cases of addiction. Although different scales have been developed to assess its severity, we lack an instrument that is able to determine the desire or craving associated with it. Thus, with the objective of evaluating craving for cell phone use, in this study, we dev...

Youth Gambling and Problem Gambling: Another High Risk Behavior

Encyclopedia of Mobile Phone Behavior

This chapter reviews the literature on mobile phone addiction, the excessive use of mobile phone technology, which is an impulse control disorder with negative social and psychological consequences. It provides a clear definition of mobile phone addiction, along with its theoretical origin, diagnostic criteria for assessment, and an identification of the symptoms and consequences of addictive b...

Investigating the relationship between mobile phone harmful use and Internet addiction with emotional divorce of teachers in Kermanshah city

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between mobile phone harmful use and internet addiction with the emotional divorce of female teachers in Kermanshah. The statistical population of this study included all married female teachers in Kermanshah city in 1969-97. Using multi-stage cluster sampling, 269 people were selected as sample based on Morgan's table. The questionn...

Recorded Behavior as a Valuable Resource for Diagnostics in Mobile Phone Addiction: Evidence from Psychoinformatics

Psychologists and psychiatrists commonly rely on self-reports or interviews to diagnose or treat behavioral addictions. The present study introduces a novel source of data: recordings of the actual problem behavior under investigation. A total of N = 58 participants were asked to fill in a questionnaire measuring problematic mobile phone behavior featuring several questions on weekly phone usag...