Mobile Phones: Vital Addiction or Lethal Addiction? Mobile Phone Usage Patterns and Assessment of Mobile Addiction among Undergraduate Medical Students in Telangana, India [PDF]
Background. Increased mobile phone usage among undergraduate medical students causes a detrimental effect on their health. The main focus of this study is to determine the pattern of mobile phone usage among undergraduate medical students in Hyderabad, India, and the detrimental effect on their health due to excess mobile use. Materials and Methods.
Vinay Jahagirdar+3 more
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Previous studies examined the impact of parenting on adolescents' mobile phone addiction tendencies. However, relatively few studies examined the potential mechanism underlying such a relationship.
Yuan Peng+3 more
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DEPRESSION AND LONELINESS AS MEDIATORS BETWEEN SOCIAL SUPPORT AND MOBILE PHONE ADDICTION [PDF]
Background: Mobile phone addiction among adolescents has attracted a lot of attention in recent years. Previous researches revealed a significant relation between low social support and addiction.
Li, Jieyang+6 more
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The Relationship Between Physical Exercise and Mobile Phone Addiction of College Students from Low Social Classes [PDF]
Mobile phone addiction has become a common phenomenon among college students, which seriously affects their physical and mental health. In this process, individuals with a strong sense of loneliness tend to seek social support and belonging in the ...
Wu, Ming, Yang, Jian, Yuan, Yuan
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BackgroundWith the increasing popularity of smartphones, mobile phone addiction in university students has attracted widespread societal attention. Previous studies showed that family functioning and mobile phone addiction are related.
Guan-Ru Li+4 more
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Measurement invariance of the phubbing scale across 20 countries [PDF]
Mobile phone addiction is a robust phenomenon observed throughout the world. The social aspect of mobile phone use is crucial; therefore, phubbing is a part of the mobile phone addiction phenomenon.
Abreu, Ana Maria+27 more
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Distinguishing Different Types of Mobile Phone Addiction: Development and Validation of the Mobile Phone Addiction Type Scale (MPATS) in Adolescents and Young Adults [PDF]
Researchers have developed various versions of scales to measure mobile phone addiction. Existing scales, however, focus primarily on the overall level of mobile phone addiction but do not distinguish the potential differences between different types of mobile phone addiction.
Qing-Qi Liu+4 more
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Background Mobile phone addiction has become a social problem that affects the healthy growth of adolescents, and it may be correlated with coping style.
Guang-Li Lu+5 more
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Attention deficit hyperactivity symptoms predict problematic mobile phone use [PDF]
Attention-deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is the most commonly diagnosed childhood disorder characterised by inattention, hyperactivity/impulsivity, or both.
A Bianchi+52 more
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The Relationship between Mobile Phone Addiction and Changes in Spinal Column Angles of Male High School Students with Endomorphic Body Type. [PDF]
Seyedahmadi M, Rostami J, Khalaghi K.
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