This study aimed to examine smartphone use patterns, smartphone addiction
characteristics, and the predictive factors of the smartphone addiction in middle school …

Objectives The study aims to assess prevalence of smartphone addiction symptoms, and to
ascertain whether depression or anxiety, independently, contributes to smartphone …

Social media occupies more and more space in the daily lives of contemporary young
adults. As online interactions have become more common than face-to-face interactions …

Abstract Background and Objective: Smartphone use is almost universally relied on among
college students. Whether smartphone addiction among college students has a negative …

Recently, with the increase in the use of and popularity of smartphones, adolescent
smartphone addiction proneness has become a serious social problem (Kim et al., 2014 …

Background: Globally there has been an exponential increase in the penetration of
smartphones among the youth population and smartphones have become indispensable in …

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 …

Smartphone addiction and its negative effects on academic performance have received
attention from both scholars and practitioners. The gist of this study is to explore the impact …

Introduction This study aimed to investigate the effects of smartphone addiction on cognitive
function and physical activity in middle-school children. Methods A population of 196 …

Background and aims Smartphone use has increased markedly over the past decade and
recent research has demonstrated that a small minority of users experience problematic …