Evaluation of smartphone addiction and related factors among university students

Abstract

Background: The purpose of this study is to investigate the level of smartphone addiction of university students and determine the related factors.Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted among first and third-class students of the 2016 fall semester in Eskişehir Osmangazi University with 1492 students. In this study, risk of smartphone addiction was evaluated by using Short Version of Smartphone Addiction Scale (SAS-SV). In data analysis, Mann Whitney U, Kruskal Wallis and hierarchical multi linear regression analysis were executed.Results: 772 (51.7 %) of 1492 students in the study group was female. SAS-SV median score of the students was 26. In this study; gender, socio-economic level, perceived health status and mostly used smartphone function were specified as factors influencing smartphone addiction. While, using smartphone for functions such as social media, gaming, online messaging and video watching was assigned to be positively related with smartphone addiction; using smartphone for telephone calls, e-mail and news reading was assigned to be negatively related. 71.2% of students (n:1063) declared to have health problems related with using smartphones. Insomnia was revealed as the most common (23.6 %) health complaint related to smartphone use.Conclusions: Social contact and applications with entertaining contents in smartphone enhance addiction. There is need for more studies and researches for exerting smartphone addiction, related factors and applying necessary protective and therapeutic interventions.

The Association between Smartphone Addiction and Insomnia Incidence in Students of the Faculty of Medicine Udayana University Batch of 2020 during the Coronavirus Disease-19 Pandemic

“…The research was conducted in North Sumatra with medical students as respondents and discovered that the average age of the respondents was 19.71 years. Similarities in terms of the characteristics of the respondent's age variable can also be found in other studies, but these studies do not specifically mention the trend of respondent's age [16], [23], [27] In terms of gender characteristics, most of the respondents in this research are female. This happened because the prevalence of female students is higher than male students.…”

“…This happened because the prevalence of female students is higher than male students. Comparable gender characteristics of respondents were also found by several types of research regarding the association between smartphone addiction and insomnia [14], [16], [23], [26], [27], [28], [29]. The percentage difference between female and male respondents in these studies varied in the range of 2-53%.…”

“…The high level of intensity of device using can cause side effects for users. Various studies have succeeded in finding the side effects of addiction due to excessive use of smartphones among teenager respondents [18], [19], [20], [21], [22], [23], [24], [25]. The condition of smartphone addiction can contribute to the development of various pathological conditions.…”

Relações Entre Comportamento Sedentário E Característica De Aplicativo Para Smartphone

“…Nesse contexto, a literatura relata a existência de fatores motivacionais, os quais podem ser intrínsecos e extrínsecos (RYAN;DECI, 2000). A socialização e diversão são exemplos de fatores extrínsecos que podem favorecer com que a pessoa fique mais tempo nos smartphones e em CS (ZENCIRCI et al, 2018), porém os mesmos fatores podem incentivar a pessoa a realizar outro comportamento, como foi identificado na fala dos escolares. Assim, saber como utilizar a motivação para a melhoria da saúde é interessante, uma vez que ela possui influência nas ações dos indivíduos (RYAN; DECI, 2000).…”

Gadget Addiction and the Students’ Achievement

“…Niro et al (2020) reported that 48% of 126 samples spent duration more than 12 hours using gadgets, and it, mostly, was for playing games (29,5) and watching videos (32,8%). Zencirci et al (2018) also proved that social contacts and entertaining applications/content increase students' addiction to the gadget. Therefore, it is not surprising that people often used their gadgets to access entertaining applications and social simulation games like the Animal Crossing series or Minecraft.…”