Smartphone use and smartphone addiction among young people in Switzerland

By S. Haug, R. P. Castro, Min Kwon, A. Filler, Tobias Kowatsch, M. Schaub. Journal of Behavioral Addictions, 2015

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Background and Aims Smartphone addiction, its association with smartphone use, and its predictors have not yet been studied in a European sample. This study investigated indicators of smartphone use, smartphone addiction, and their associations with demographic and health behaviour-related variables in young people. Methods A convenience sample of 1,519 students from 127 Swiss vocational school classes participated in a survey assessing demographic and health-related characteristics as well as indicators of smartphone use and addiction. Smartphone addiction was assessed using a short version of the Smartphone Addiction Scale for Adolescents (SAS-SV). Logistic regression analyses were conducted to investigate demographic and health-related predictors of smartphone addiction. Results Smartphone addiction occurred in 256 (16.9%) of the 1,519 students. Longer duration of smartphone use on a typical day, a shorter time period until first smartphone use in the morning, and reporting that social networking was the most personally relevant smartphone function were associated with smartphone addiction. Smartphone addiction was more prevalent in younger adolescents (15–16 years) compared with young adults (19 years and older), students with both parents born outside Switzerland, persons reporting lower physical activity, and those reporting higher stress. Alcohol and tobacco consumption were unrelated to smartphone addiction. Discussion Different indicators of smartphone use are associated with smartphone addiction and subgroups of young people have a higher prevalence of smartphone addiction. Conclusions The study provides the first insights into smartphone use, smartphone addiction, and predictors of smartphone addiction in young people from a European country, which should be extended in further studies.

Subfields: Education, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Online Dating and Problematic Use: A Systematic Review (2020, background): “However, previous literature in the field of internet disorders has found that extended use (higher frequency of use) is related to higher scores on smartphone addiction (Haug et al. 2015).”
Addictive Features of Social Media/Messenger Platforms and Freemium Games against the Background of Psychological and Economic Theories (2019, background): “Such a focus is warranted because several studies already demonstrated that these applications are important drivers of (excessive) smartphone usage (literature on social media/messenger applications and smartphone usage [28,97,98]; literature on gaming and smartphone usage [29,99,100].”
Psychological Factors Associated With Smartphone Addiction in South Korean Adolescents (2018, neutral): “5% in Switzerland, Spain, and Belgium, respectively (Haug et al., 2015; Lopez-Fernandez, 2015).”
Psychological Distress, Emotion Dysregulation, and Coping Behaviour: a Theoretical Perspective of Problematic Smartphone Use (2020, background): “…in the literature (i.e. ‘smartphone addiction’; Aljomaa et al. 2016; Bian and Leung 2015; Chiu 2014; Darcin et al. 2016; Demirci et al. 2015; Haug et al. 2015; Herrero et al. 2019; Körmendi et al. 2016; Liang and Leung 2018; Lin et al. 2016; Mahapatra 2019; Noë et al. 2019; Samaha and…”