The Effects of Smartphone Addiction Drivers on Work Performance

Smartphone addiction is a new phenomenon when a smartphone becomes a necessity in our daily life. This study explores smartphone usage patterns associated with its addiction drivers and results. Four factors such as ease of use, emotional lift, preference of social interaction, and flow, are used for drivers and neglect of work is used as a proxy of addiction result. In the output of path analysis, preference of social interaction is not related with usage behaviors like usage frequency and usage hours. In the analysis of U.S. users, emotional lift and flow are two drivers and in the analysis of Korean users, ease of use and flow are drivers. Even if there is a trend of converging user behavior because of globalization, drivers for smartphone addiction are different in the U.S. and Korea.