Problematic Internet and cell phone use in Spanish teenagers and young students

By Xavier Carbonell, Andrés Chamarro, Mark D. Griffiths, Ursula Oberst, Ramón Cladellas, Antoni Talarn. 2012

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Addiction to the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) has become an important research topic. The aims of the present study were to determine the problematic uses of Internet and cell phones in Spanish teenagers and young students and analyze the predictive capacity of these problematic uses to explain scores on the CERI (Cuestionario de Experiencias Relacionadas con Internet) and CERM (Cuestionario de Ex- periencias Relacionadas con el Movil). Three questionnaires were applied to 1,879 students: a general questionnaire for Internet and cell phone use, one scale for problematic use of Internet (CERI) and one for cell phone (CERM). Cluster analysis yielded a solution involving three groups for both CERI and for CERM: no problems, occasional problems and frequent problems. There were no differences between males and females in Inter- net but there were more females showing frequent problematic use of cell phone. A comparison with nine previous Spanish studies suggests that: a) the amount of time spent connected is not a good indicator of problems deriving from its use; b) the factor that could explain problematic use is al- tered identity communication (AIC), which occurs when users hide or alter their true identity; and c) population survey data alone do not allow to con- firm the existence of a persistent addictive disorder related to ICT.

Subfields: Computer Networks and Communications, Education, Sociology and Political Science

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An Exploration of Problematic Smartphone Use among Chinese University Students: Associations with Academic Anxiety, Academic Procrastination, Self-Regulation and Subjective Wellbeing (2018, background): “Although mobile phones, especially smartphones, offer benefits in terms of communication and access to information, there is growing evidence that they can have negative effects and that their use can become problematic among a small minority of individuals (e.g. Bianchi and Phillips 2005; Billieux ”
Negative consequences from heavy social networking in adolescents: The mediating role of fear of missing out. (2017, background): “As Carbonell et al. (2012) argue, the cell phone is becoming a catalyst of FOMO, and hence increases stress and anxiety.”