Needing to connect: The effect of self and others on young people's involvement with their mobile phones

By Shari P. Walsh, Katherine M. White, Ross McD. Young. 2010

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Abstract The present research was a preliminary examination of young Australians' mobile phone behaviour. The study explored the relationship between, and psychological predictors of, frequency of mobile phone use and mobile phone involvement conceptualised as people's cognitive and behavioural interaction with their mobile phone. Participants were 946 Australian youth aged between 15 and 24 years. A descriptive measurement tool, the Mobile Phone Involvement Questionnaire, was developed. Self-identity and validation from others were explored as predictors of both types of mobile phone behaviour. A distinction was found between frequency of mobile phone use and mobile phone involvement. Only self-identity predicted frequency of use whereas both self-identity and validation from others predicted mobile phone involvement. These findings reveal the importance of distinguishing between frequency of use and people's psychological relationship with their phone and that factors relating to one's self-concept and ...

Subfields: Communication, Education, Sociology and Political Science

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Problematic smartphone use: A conceptual overview and systematic review of relations with anxiety and depression psychopathology. (2017, methodology): “Scales represented in more than one study each included the Mobile Phone Involvement Questionnaire, developed by Walsh et al. (2010), and used in two studies of psychopathology correlates (Harwood et al., 2014; Walsh et al., 2011).”
Time to Face It! Facebook Intrusion and the Implications for Romantic Jealousy and Relationship Satisfaction (2011, neutral): “13 In line with recent research that points to high levels of involvement in technologies such as mobile phone usage and the Internet, 7,14 the present study draws attention to Face-book intrusion.”
Problematic Use of the Mobile Phone: A Literature Review and a Pathways Model (2012, methodology): “Other comparable unidimensional tools have been developed [11] [18] [19] , including scales based on diagnostic criteria (inspired by the substance abuse nosography) and developed to determine a tentative cut-off for " pathological mobile phone use " [19] .”
Impact of mobile phone addiction on adolescent’s life: A literature review (2016, methodology): “(2010) [57] Mobile Phone Involvement Questionnaire including scales based on diagnostic criteria (inspired by the substance abuse nosography).”
Out of sight is not out of mind: The impact of restricting wireless mobile device use on anxiety levels among low, moderate and high users (2014, background): “In addition, Walsh et al. (2010) found that the previous research about mobile phones has focused primarily on frequency of use and does not adequately measure the interactions people have with their device as a mobile computer, and how cognitively preoccupied they were when not using it.”
Smartphone Addiction among University Undergraduates: A Literature Review (2015, background): “[28] examined the effects of involvement with mobile phone use on their use by people.”
Beyond Self-Report: Tools to Compare Estimated and Real-World Smartphone Use (2015, background): “Estimated levels of smartphone use have previously been related to sleep, interpersonal relationships, driving safety, and personality [5, 7, 22, 23].”
Prevalence of Problematic Mobile Phone Use in British Adolescents (2014, neutral): “2 One particularly interesting ﬁnding is that in current studies of MPPU, 3,23 withdrawal seem to be the most relevant symptom of addiction.”
Exploring the dimensions of nomophobia: Development and validation of a self-reported questionnaire (2015, methodology): “Mobile Phone Involvement Questionnaire (MPIQ): In addition to the NMP-Q, the 8-item MPIQ (Walsh et al., 2010) was administered.”
We ARe at home: How augmented reality reshapes mobile marketing and consumer-brand relationships (2018, background): “, 2016) and that can become extensions of consumers’ own self-identities (e.g., Belk, 2014; Walsh et al., 2010).”
Rules? Role Model? Relationship? The Impact of Parents on Their Children’s Problematic Mobile Phone Involvement (2019, methodology): “, 2013), problematic mobile phone use (Bianchi & Phillips, 2005), or mobile phone involvement (Walsh et al., 2010).”