Smartphone addiction: psychosocial correlates, risky attitudes, and smartphone harm

Abstract

Smartphone use has brought convenience to users, although its excessive use and addiction might also have negative consequences. Using a representative sample of 526 smartphone users in Spain, the present study analyzes smartphone extensive use and addiction as well as its relationship to smartphone harm. Selfreported and scanned data were obtained from users and their smartphones. Multivariate linear regression analyses showed that higher levels of smartphone extensive use were found for female respondents, those high on general propensity to risk, neuroticism, and low on conscientiousness, openness, or social support. Multivariate binary logistic results showed that general propensity to risk and low social support were predictive of smartphone addiction. The combination of high smartphone extensive use and low social support was positively and significantly related to the existence of smartphone harm as well as higher levels of risk attitudes toward smartphone use. These results might indicate that when low social support is coupled with an extensive smartphone use, respondents not only show a more positive attitude toward risky behaviors while using their smartphone but, also, a greater level of harm is found in their terminals.

Correlation between smartphone addiction and dysfunctional attitudes in nursing/midwifery students

“…Dysfunctional attitude is a condition that may be experienced by individuals suffering from depression. The study by Herrero et al, which used 526 students, reported that smartphone users who received little social support experienced higher levels of smartphone addiction. In a study using 2017 academic year university students, reported that dysfunctional attitudes and negative automatic thoughts may cause an increase in depression levels.…”

Smartphone Addiction and Social Support: A Three-year Longitudinal Study

“…The studies on smartphone addiction represent a continuation of the first studies on addiction to the Internet and to mobile phones and share some of their premises (Herrero et al, 2017a;Herrero, Urueña, Torres, & Hidalgo 2019). For example, these studies share the idea that communication technologies can lead to social isolation, which has negative consequences for well-being.…”

“…They also share the idea that smartphone addiction have the same negative consequences stemming from behavioral addictions (such as gambling, for example), like poor psychological adjustment, problems at work, or an increase in conflicts with family and friends. The study of smartphone addiction has also brought some novelties like its effects on potential increases of security vulnerabilities and potential exposure to future cyber victimizations (for instance, phishing) (see Herrero et al, 2017a for an analysis).…”

“…We used six waves of data from the Cybersecurity and Confidence in Spanish Households national survey conducted by the National Observatory of Telecommunications and Information Society of the Spanish Ministry of Industry for this study (see Herrero et al, 2017a;Herrero, Urueña, Torres, & Hidalgo 2017b;Herrero et al, 2019, for a detailed description). Participants belonged to a representative sample of the Spanish population of Internet users, 15 years old and over sampled within households.…”

Longitudinal Effects of Excessive Smartphone Use on Stress and Loneliness: The Moderating Role of Self-Disclosure

“…Second, studies on excessive use predominantly relied on convenience samples, mostly university students, [9][10][11][12][13][14][15] and only very few researchers have investigated a representative or quota-based sample. 4,16 However, as smartphone use is not limited to young adults, including a broad age range of users is important. For example, in Germany, where the study has been conducted, 78% of citizens own a smartphone.…”