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Mobile Phone to Youngsters: Necessity or Addiction

Information Management and Business Review, 2011
This study focuses on exploring the pattern of mobile phone usage among youngsters in Pakistan to delineate the extent of addictive behavior towards its usage. For this purpose questionnaires were used to elicit the responses. University students were selected as population and simple random sampling technique was used.
Ishfaq Ahmed, Khadija Aijaz Perji .
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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]

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2022
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, Xiao-Pan Xu, Xiu-Juan Yang, Jie Xiong, Yu-Ting Hu   +4 more
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Mobile phone addiction and depression among Chinese medical students: the mediating role of sleep quality and the moderating role of peer relationships

BMC Psychiatry, 2022
The literature has shown that mobile phone addiction is an important risk factor for depression. However, the internal mechanisms of mobile phone addiction leading to depression are still not clear. This study examined the mediating role of sleep quality
Ziyi Feng, Yucong Diao, Hongfei Ma, Minghui Liu, Meijun Long, Shuang Zhao, Hui Wu, Yang Wang   +7 more
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Adolescent mobile phone addiction during the COVID-19 pandemic predicts subsequent suicide risk: a two-wave longitudinal study

BMC Public Health, 2022
Both the rate of mobile phone addiction and suicidality among adolescents have increased during the pandemic lockdown. However, the relationship between mobile phone addiction and suicide risk and the underlying psychological mechanisms remains unknown ...
Gangqin Li, Aldo Alberto Conti, Changjian Qiu, Wanjie Tang   +3 more
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Preference for Solitude and Mobile Phone Addiction Among Chinese College Students: The Mediating Role of Psychological Distress and Moderating Role of Mindfulness

Frontiers in Psychology, 2021
Background: With the increasing incidence of mobile phone addiction, the potential risk factors of mobile phone addiction have attracted more and more researchers’ attention.
Wan-Yi Chen, Lei Yan, Yi-Ren Yuan, Xiao-Wei Zhu, Yan-Hong Zhang, Shuai-Lei Lian   +5 more
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Mobile phone addiction in Tibetan and Han Chinese adolescents [PDF]

Perspectives in Psychiatric Care, 2018
To compare mobile phone addiction (MPA) patterns between Tibetan and Han adolescents in China.The study was carried out in two provinces of China. The Mobile Phone Addiction Scale (MPAS) was used to assess MPA.Seven hundred and five Tibetan and 606 Han students participated in the study.
Li Lu, Dan‐Dan Xu, Huan‐Zhong Liu, Ling Zhang, Chee H. Ng, Gabor S. Ungvari, Weng Tong Wu, Yi‐Fan Xiang, Feng‐Rong An, Yu‐Tao Xiang   +9 more
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Long-Term Symptoms of Mobile Phone Use on Mobile Phone Addiction and Depression Among Korean Adolescents [PDF]

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2019
This study aimed to compare the mean scores of mobile phone use, mobile phone addiction, and depressive symptoms at three-time points among Korean adolescents according to gender and to examine the differences in the long-term relationships among the three abovementioned variables between Korean boys and girls in a four-year period.
So-Young Park, Sonam Yang, Chang-Sik Shin, Hyunseok Jang, So-Youn Park   +4 more
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The effects of mobile phone addiction on learning engagement of Chinese college students - the mediating role of physical activity and academic self-efficacy

BMC Public Health
With the widespread adoption of smartphones, mobile phone addiction has increasingly gained prominence among Chinese college students, exerting a profound and detrimental impact on their learning engagement.
Shuqiao Meng, Kai Qi, Panyi Shen, Meng Zhang, Yu Zhang, Nzubechi Onyebuchi, Ge Zhan, Fanqi Wei, Wen-xia Tong, Yahui Han, Xiaoyu Ge   +10 more
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Mobile Phone Addiction and Sleep Quality among Older People: The Mediating Roles of Depression and Loneliness

Behavioral Sciences, 2023
Rapid social development has made the elderly increasingly dependent on mobile phones, and mobile phone addiction has a negative effect on sleep quality. The underlying mechanism between the two is unclear.
Hemei Tian, Yifu Wang
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Mobile Phone Dependence and Mobile Phone Addiction among Engineering College Women Students

International Journal of Indian Psychology, 2018
The world that people live in today is a world full of technological marvels. Everywhere of people look and every aspect of their lives has been influenced and molded by the plethora of gadgets and applications that have come up at an astounding pace to overwhelm and overhaul the economic, political, social and psychological fabric of our everyday ...
null Dr. B. Selvaraj, null J.Jerus Albert Britto   +1 more
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