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Prevalence and predictors of problematic smart phone use among pre-varsity young people in Ibadan, Nigeria

The Pan African Medical Journal, 2020
INTRODUCTION: Smart phone possession and use among young people is on the increase in Africa and phone addiction has been shown to be similar to substance use dependence. However, there is barely any literature focused on the effect of smart phone use on
Folusho Mubowale Balogun, Oluwatoyin Esther Olatunde   +1 more
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Validation of a modified problematic use of mobile phones scale to examine problematic smartphone use and dependence

Heliyon
Over the past decade, the world population has experienced rapid and widespread adoption of smartphones due to their usefulness and convenience. However, researchers have identified a range of adverse behaviours associated with the adoption of smartphones and their higher use.
Saqib Nawaz, Jahar Bhowmik, Tanya Linden, Matthew Mitchell   +3 more
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A Model of Attitudes toward the Acceptance of Mobile Phone Use in Public Places [PDF]

Since the first commercial launch of cellular telecoms by NET in Tokyo Japan in 1979 and the launch of the NMT system in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden in 1981, the mobile phone has undergone continual incremental innovation for changing market ...
Brenda Mak, Henri Isaac, Robert Nickerson   +2 more
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Childhood brain tumours and use of mobile phones: comparison of a case-control study with incidence data [PDF]

, 2012
The first case-control study on mobile phone use and brain tumour risk among children and adolescents (CEFALO study) has recently been published. In a commentary published in Environmental Health, Söderqvist and colleagues argued that CEFALO suggests an ...
Feychting, M., Feychting, Maria, Aydin, D, Feychting, M,, Aydin, Denis, Aydin, D., Feychting Maria, Schuz, J., Röösli, M., Maria Feychting, Röösli, Martin, null null, Roeoesli, M, Denis Aydin, Martin Röösli, Schüz Joachim, Joachim Schüz, Aydin Denis, Röösli Martin, Schuez, J, Schüz, Joachim, Feychting M, Schüz J, Röösli M, Aydin D   +24 more
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Factor structure and measurement invariance of the problematic mobile phone use questionnaire-short version across gender in Chinese adolescents and young adults

BMC Psychiatry, 2020
Background Problematic mobile phone use (PMPU) has become a public health issue in China, particularly in adolescents and young adults. The Problematic Mobile Phone Use Questionnaire-Short Version (PMPUQ-SV) is a validated instrument that measures ...
Ying-Ying Wang, Jiang Long, Yue-Heng Liu, Tie-Qiao Liu, Joël Billieux   +4 more
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Problematic technology use during adolescence: why don’t teenagers seek treatment? [PDF]

, 2015
In recent issues of Education and Health, I have briefly reviewed the empirical evidence relating to problematic use of technology by adolescents including online video gaming (Griffiths, 2014), social networking (Griffiths, 2013a; Kuss & Griffiths, 2011)
Griffiths, MD
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Adolescents problematic mobile phone use, Fear of Missing Out and family communication

Comunicar, 2019
This research analyzes the problematic use of mobile phone, the phenomenon of fear of missing Out (FoMO) and the communication between parents and children in students who attend secondary education in public and private centers of the regions of Canary Islands, Balearic Islands and Valencia.
Lidia-E. Santana-Vega, Ana-María Gómez-Muñoz, Luis Feliciano-García   +2 more
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Associations between problematic mobile phone use and psychological parameters in young adults

International Journal of Public Health, 2011
This study aims to address possible associations between excessive or dysfunctional use of mobile phones and certain psychological variables.Our study focuses on Problematic Mobile Phone Use (PU) in 196 young adults. A survey was arranged to measure PU, daily mobile phone use in minutes, use of short message service (SMS) and also included ...
Christoph, Augner, Gerhard W, Hacker
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Research progress on the relationship between adolescent depressive disorder and mobile phone use among adolescents and their parents [PDF]

Xin yixue
Adolescent depressive disorders are not only associated with the problematic use of mobile phones by adolescents themselves but also with the frequent use of mobile phones by their parents.
MIAO Yi, DONG Qiangli
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Problematic Use of Mobile Phones and Mental Health

SDES-International Journal of Interdisciplinary Research, 2023
Harsh Kumar, Omprakash Swami
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