Addictive Personality and Problematic Mobile Phone Use

Abstract

Mobile phone use is banned or regulated in some circumstances. Despite recognized safety concerns and legal regulations, some people do not refrain from using mobile phones. Such problematic mobile phone use can be considered to be an addiction-like behavior. To find the potential predictors, we examined the correlation between problematic mobile phone use and personality traits reported in addiction literature, which indicated that problematic mobile phone use was a function of gender, self-monitoring, and approval motivation but not of loneliness. These findings suggest that the measurements of these addictive personality traits would be helpful in the screening and intervention of potential problematic users of mobile phones.

Students’ Perceptions of Cell Phones and Emotional Behaviour of Undergraduates in Nigerian Universities

“…The result in Table 2 indicates that there is no significant relationship between students' perception of cell phone and sleep disorder. This finding supports the view of Takao et al (2009) who say that the perception of individuals on the use of cell phones depends on how individuals perceive the possibility of be disturbed at odd hours, even at midnight. While some may feel disturbed, others may welcome the idea of receiving calls at night.…”

“…The result supports the view of Takao et al (2009) who say that young people are sometimes addicted to mobile phones by over using them and this prompts them to spend a lot on the purchase of credit cards in order to call, browse and do other related things on the phone. They could be tempted, at times to spend money meant for other valuable things on credit cards.…”

“…According to Takao et al (2009), the key determinant of emotional attachment may be the extent to which a person actually perceives his or her own accessibility as stressful. According to the author, accessibility implies the possibility of being disturbed at all hours, even at night time.…”

Problematic mobile phone use of Swiss adolescents: is it linked with mental health or behaviour?

“…The first three pathways describe a link of problematic mobile phone use and personality traits found in previous studies (Augner and Hacker 2012;Bianchi and Phillips 2005;Takao et al 2009). The cyber addiction pathway is related to and inspired by research about problematic internet use, since nowadays most adolescents own a smartphone and therefore have internet access on their mobile phone.…”

Prevalence of Problematic Mobile Phone Use in British Adolescents

“…The most widely used scale to date in adults [24][25][26] is the Mobile Phone Problem Use Scale (MPPUS), which was developed by Bianchi and Phillips 1 and is considered a possible ''gold standard'' 4 in this area. MPPUS has been adapted for use with Chinese teenagers by Leung,12,21 while Lopez-Fernandez et al 15 recently produced a version for Spanish adolescents.…”