OBJECTIVES The study aims to assess prevalence of smartphone addiction symptoms, and to ascertain whether depression or anxiety, independently, contributes to smartphone addiction level among a sample of Lebanese university students, while adjusting simultaneously for important sociodemographic, academic, lifestyle, personality trait, and smartphone-related variables. METHODS A random sample ...

OBJECTIVES The study aimed to determine the validity of a smartphone hearing screening technology (hearScreen™) compared with conventional screening audiometry in terms of (1) sensitivity and specificity, (2) referral rate, and (3) test time. DESIGN One thousand and seventy school-age children in grades 1 to 3 (8 ± 1.1 average years) were recruited from five public schools. Children were scre...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Excessive usage of smartphones may induce social problems, such as depression and impairment of social and emotional functioning. Moreover, its usage can impede physical activity, but the relationship between smartphone addiction and physical activity is obscure. Therefore, we examined the relationship and the impact of excessive smartphone use on physical activity. METHOD...

The aim of this research is to study the effect of growth of smartphone usage among university student. Now, smartphone can become a pocket computer and a must have for all students university. These papers discussed about the issues occur when the university student used the smartphone. It is because technologies nowadays develop many smartphone with the cheaper price and the student is afford...

As cell phones evolve into mobile computers, smartphones have become necessities (and sometimes problems) in people’s lives. This study was conducted to demonstrate the severity of smartphone addiction in two countries. Korea is a leading country in the mobile broadband market in terms of market penetration ratio (total # of smartphones sold ÷ country population) and the U.S. is the number one ...

Background Mobile phones are an important part of adolescents' life. In this study, the relationships among smartphone addiction, age, gender, and chronotype of German adolescents were examined. Materials and methods Two studies focused on two different measures of smartphone addiction. The Smartphone Addiction Proneness Scale (SAPS) was applied to 342 younger adolescents (13.39 ± 1.77; 176 boy...

The situation around smartphone diffusion and usage is not consistent across the world at all. The diffusion of smartphones is influenced by many socio-economic factors in complex and dynamic ways. This paper addresses the current status of smartphone users in the world by analysing a large-scale smartphone user study to highlight particular clusters in terms of smartphone diffusion into our so...

[Purpose] This study aimed to compare dynamic balance with respect to completing a single task while not using smartrphone function and completing two task while using different smartphone functions, therby preventing falls or injuries resulting from completion of dual tasks. [Subjects and Methods] The subjects of this study were 36 healthy males and females. The experiment was conducted for fi...

BACKGROUND Relapse prevention in bipolar disorder can be improved by monitoring symptoms in patients' daily life. Smartphone apps are easy-to-use, low-cost tools that can be used to assess this information. To date, few studies have examined the usefulness of smartphone data for monitoring symptoms in bipolar disorder. OBJECTIVE We present results from a pilot test of a smartphone-based monit...

The aim of this research is to identify factors affecting individual’s intention to purchase a Smartphone from the perspectives of technology adoption and technology dependence. This study takes into account the role of cell phone dependence and hedonic aspects of cell phone use, by combining technology acceptance model, diffusion of innovation theory and theory of optimal flow, in order to pro...