Can Disordered Mobile Phone Use Be Considered a Behavioral Addiction? An Update on Current Evidence and a Comprehensive Model for Future Research

By Joël Billieux, Pierre Maurage, Olatz Lopez-Fernandez, Daria J. Kuss, Mark D. Griffiths. Current Addiction Report, 2015

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Problematic Use of Social Networking Sites: Antecedents and Consequence from a Dual-System Theory Perspective (2016, background): “, [14]) has challenged the clinical and 1088 TUREL AND QAHRI-SAREMI”
Proneness to Boredom Mediates Relationships Between Problematic Smartphone Use With Depression and Anxiety Severity (2018, background): “Because of decreased attention to their schoolwork, boredom-prone students should instead engage in more pleasurable activity of smartphone use, given its ease of access and its hedonic benefits (Billieux et al., 2015).”
Personality, fear of missing out and problematic internet use and their relationship to subjective well-being (2017, background): “Billieux et al (2015) described the ‘excessive reassurance’ pathway, in which socially insecure and anxious individuals display patterns of social media use that gratify their needs for social reassurance.”
Fear of missing out, need for touch, anxiety and depression are related to problematic smartphone use (2016, background): “Thus FoMO, a construct mapping onto the extraversion pathway of Billieux et al. (2015), does not necessarily discriminate high versus low use of the smartphone.”
How can we conceptualize behavioral addiction without pathologizing common behaviors? (2017, neutral): “A revealing example of why this is problematic is the largely unsuccessful effort to apply the criteria for tolerance and withdrawal in behavioural addiction research, which has been criticized for involving either metaphorical use of these terms or the use of fairly coarse behavioural criteria such”
Social Networking Sites and Addiction: Ten Lessons Learned (2017, positive): “Recent research has suggested problematic mobile phone use is a multi-faceted condition, with dependent use being one of four possible pathways, in addition to dangerous, prohibited, and financially problematic use [82].”
Problematic smartphone use: A conceptual overview and systematic review of relations with anxiety and depression psychopathology. (2017, background): “Finally, the impulsivity pathway involves lack of selfcontrol and regulation in managing smartphone use (reviewed in Billieux et al., 2015a).”