Self-control and problematic smartphone use among Italian University students: The mediating role of the fear of missing out and of smartphone use patterns

Servidio, Rocco

doi:10.1007/s12144-019-00373-z

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“…The rapid diffusion and adoption of smartphones, tablets and smartwatches, have greatly facilitated people's access to goods and services found on the web. This ease of access, however, has translated into increased hours of connectivity such that the amount of time people spend on their smartphones has become a growing concern, prompting several scholars to explore whether their excessive use could lead to addictive behaviours (Duke & Montag, 2017;Kim et al, 2016;Lo Coco et al, 2020;Servidio, 2019). The addictive use of the Internet is often denominated by such terms as: social media addiction, Facebook addiction, and problematic smartphone addiction (Choi et al, 2014;Marino, Gini, Vieno, & Spada, 2018), among others.…”

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“…Indeed, PSU can involve deficits in social relationships, work and/or school performance, and can even lead to family disputes caused by excessive smartphone use because of too many hours spent on social media interaction (Billieux, Maurage, Lopez-Fernandez, Kuss, & Griffiths, 2015). Additionally, results from several previous studies found an association between PSU and poor mental health condition including depression and anxiety (Coyne, Stockdale, & Summers, 2019;Kara, Baytemir, & Inceman-Kara, 2019), sleep deficits (Zhang & Wu, 2020), low self-esteem (Lannoy et al, 2020), low selfcontrol (Servidio, 2019), and lower motivation in doing physical activities (Pereira, Bevilacqua, Coimbra, & Andrade, 2020). We should underline, however, that PSU is not actually included in the official diagnosis of the International Classification of Diseases or the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) and does not seem to pose the same risks that drug and alcohol use disorders do.…”

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Fear of missing out and self-esteem as mediators of the relationship between maximization and problematic smartphone use

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2021

Curr Psychol

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Problematic smartphone use (PSU), which involves an excessive and uncontrolled use of smartphones, thereby causing daily-life disturbance, has been associated with a range of negative outcomes including anxiety, depression, and deficits in social relationships. However, the relationship between PSU and maximization, which could be an explanatory factor, has not yet been thoroughly studied. Drawing on the Interaction-Person-Affect-Cognition-Execution (I-PACE) model, the current study aimed to investigate the association between PSU and maximization with the assumption that fear of missing out (FoMO) and self-esteem could mediate this relationship. Empirical data were gathered from 277 Italian university students who completed an online survey. Correlation analysis and structural equation modelling (SEM) were used to investigate the relationships among the variables. The results showed that PSU, maximization, and FoMO were positively correlated; whereas maximization and self-esteem were negatively correlated. Furthermore, FoMO and self-esteem partially mediated that relationship, suggesting that participant maximizers experience more FoMO, especially when the participants have fear of missing out on potentially “better” alternatives to social experiences and exhibit low self-esteem. Thus, higher FoMO and low self-esteem can be a driver of PSU. Finally, this study provides new insights about how maximization may have an impact on the development of addictive behaviour such as PSU.

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Fear of missing out and self-esteem as mediators of the relationship between maximization and problematic smartphone use

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2021

Curr Psychol

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“…Similarly to some aforementioned relations between SM and psychological well-being variables, problematic smartphone use (PSU) has been associated with psychopathology, such as depression and anxiety (Elhai et al, 2017; Hussain et al, 2017; Rozgonjuk, Levine, Hall, & Elhai, 2018), as well as transdiagnostic factors like rumination (Elhai et al, 2018), dysfunctional emotion regulation (Pancani et al, 2019; Rozgonjuk & Elhai, 2019), boredom proneness (Wolniewicz et al, 2019), and fear of missing out (Servidio, 2019). It should be noted, however, that most of these studies have used self-reports rather than objectively measured behavioral data.…”

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Instagram use frequency is associated with problematic smartphone use, but not with depression and anxiety symptom severity

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Mobile Media & Communication

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Studies have demonstrated that social media use, as well as problematic smartphone use (PSU), are associated with psychopathology variables, such as depression and anxiety. However, it has not been studied how Instagram use frequency is associated with depression, anxiety, and PSU. The aim of this study was to investigate whether Instagram use frequency is related to these psychopathology variables. Three hundred and five active Instagram users ( Mage = 23.61, SDage = 5.33; 82.2% female) comprised the effective sample in this study. They responded to an online survey that included questionnaires regarding their Instagram and smartphone use, as well as about experiencing depression and anxiety symptoms. We also retrieved objectively measured Instagram use data. The results showed that although Instagram use frequency, depression, and anxiety were associated with PSU in bivariate analysis, Instagram use frequency did not have indirect effects in the relations between psychopathology variables and PSU. Furthermore, while younger age and female sex predicted Instagram use frequency, these socio-demographic variables did not predict PSU. According to our findings Instagram use frequency contributes to PSU, but it is not related to depression and anxiety.

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“…What is more, this trend seems to have increased over the last decade [39]. The causes behind maladaptive smartphone use are-to some degree-mediated by individuals' fear of being left out of their social network or missing important information if they are not constantly connected [61][62][63]. For this reason, young people feel an urgent need to check their phones constantly, and experience serious difficulties when it comes to silencing or turning their phones off when required [26].…”

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Problematic Smartphone Use in Spanish and Italian University Students

2020

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Sustainable education requires the proper usage of technological devices. Among these is the smartphone, which is used by millions of young people around the world in today’s society. The objective of this study was to understand the smartphone usage profile of Spanish and Italian university students. It also aimed to identify possible problematic uses, and the differences in smartphone use (or abuse) between the participating subjects. The study was descriptive and comparative, with the intentional sampling of N = 1412 subjects studying at the education faculties of the University of Alicante (UA) and the Suor Orsola Benincasa University (UNISOB). A previously-validated questionnaire with 27 items was employed during the 2019–20 academic year. The data was analysed using the SPSS 25 programme. Descriptive and inferential analyses were carried out. The results obtained after the analysis of the data indicated that, of the four possible user types—occasional, habitual, at risk, and problematic—more than half of the sample identified themselves as habitual users. It can be concluded that there are significant differences between the universities: the UA students exhibited more problematic use than the UNISOB students. It is therefore necessary to prepare training programmes that are designed to avert problematic behaviours related to smartphone use.

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Self-control and problematic smartphone use among Italian University students: The mediating role of the fear of missing out and of smartphone use patterns

Cited by 58 publications

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Fear of missing out and self-esteem as mediators of the relationship between maximization and problematic smartphone use

Fear of missing out and self-esteem as mediators of the relationship between maximization and problematic smartphone use

Instagram use frequency is associated with problematic smartphone use, but not with depression and anxiety symptom severity

Problematic Smartphone Use in Spanish and Italian University Students

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