Is smartphone addiction really an addiction?

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Exercise rehabilitation for smartphone addiction

Internet addiction after launching smartphone is becoming serious. Therefore this paper has attempted to sketch out the diverse addiction treatment and then check the feasibility of exercise rehabilitation. The reason to addict the internet or smartphone is personalized individual characters related personal psychological and emotional factors and social environmental factors around them. We ha...

'Addiction' in adolescence: who is really losing control?

Smartphone use and smartphone addiction among young people in Switzerland

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Smartphone addiction, its association with smartphone use, and its predictors have not yet been studied in a European sample. This study investigated indicators of smartphone use, smartphone addiction, and their associations with demographic and health behaviour-related variables in young people. METHODS A convenience sample of 1,519 students from 127 Swiss vocational scho...

Proposed Diagnostic Criteria for Smartphone Addiction

BACKGROUND Global smartphone penetration has led to unprecedented addictive behaviors. The aims of this study are to develop diagnostic criteria of smartphone addiction and to examine the discriminative ability and the validity of the diagnostic criteria. METHODS We developed twelve candidate criteria for characteristic symptoms of smartphone addiction and four criteria for functional impairm...