Background and aims The use of mobile phones has become an integral part of everyday life. Young people in particular can be observed using their smartphones constantly, and they not only make or receive calls but also use different applications or just tap touch screens for several minutes at a time. The opportunities provided by smartphones are attractive, and the cumulative time of using sma...

Abstract With the increase in number of “head-down people”, phenomenon mobile phone addiction has attracted much attention, especially for college students. Through empirical analysis, this article surveyed 400 students, which 315 valid questionnaires. Under premise controlling individual’s academic self-efficacy, research explores and proves mediating role artificial intelligence recommendatio...

BACKGROUND Existing instruments that assess individuals' relationships with mobile phones tend to focus on negative constructs such as addiction or dependence, and appear to assume that high mobile phone use reflects pathology. Mobile phones can be beneficial for health behavior change, disease management, work productivity, and social connections, so there is a need for an instrument that prov...

While organizational pervasive technologies, such as mobile computing, can contribute to increased productivity, their nature can also result in technology addiction.We applied the behavior–environment interface of social cognitive theory to explain several negative familial and organizational consequences of addiction to work-related pervasive technologies. Our empirical study of 241 organizat...

Pervasive information technologies, such as Blackberries, enable organizational users to interact with their working environments anytime and from anywhere. While such technologies can contribute to increased productivity, they can also drive addictive behaviors and negative consequences. An empirical study of 241 mobile email users revealed that their levels of addiction to mobile email increa...

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...

We present a deflationary account of smartphone addiction by situating this purportedly antisocial phenomenon within the fundamentally social dispositions of our species. While we agree with contemporary critics that the hyper-connectedness and unpredictable rewards of mobile technology can modulate negative affect, we propose to place the locus of addiction on an evolutionarily older mechanism...

Objective: The purpose of the study is to examine relationship between perceived stress, social support and media addiction in university students.
 Method: research a descriptive, relational study. sample consisted 404 students studying at Faculty Health Sciences. Personal Information Form, Perceived Stress Scale, Social Support Media Addiction Scale-Adult Form were used for data.
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