Self as an antecedent of mobile phone addiction

Author: Khang Hyoungkoo   Woo Hyung-Jin   Kim Jung Kyu  

Publisher: Inderscience Publishers

ISSN: 1470-949X

Source: International Journal of Mobile Communications, Vol.10, Iss.1, 2012-12, pp. : 65-84

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Abstract

Employing a survey, the study examined self-esteem, self-efficacy, and self-control as antecedents of mobile phone addiction. The findings indicate that self-control is the most significant predictor of mobile phone addiction. Gender and age demonstrate a statistically significant relationship with a particular dimension of mobile phone addiction, compulsive anxiety. The findings are expected to help practitioners delineate elaborated approaches aimed at relieving a dimension of the addiction-like symptoms of technology use. In addition, scholars can utilise dimensions composed of mobile phone addiction and self-traits to examine the detailed and respective causality that exists between them.