Internet addiction, although not recognized by the WHO or the APA, is a serious and
problematic pathology. This meta-analysis shows that the incidence of Internet addiction in …

This article provides a systematic review of existing research on problematic smartphone
use (PSU) to guide other researchers in search of relevant studies, and to propose areas for …

The growth in social media use has given rise to concerns about the impacts it may have on
users' psychological well-being. This paper's main objective is to shed light on the effect of …

Background and aims Previous research has explored the relationship between fear of
missing out (FoMO), social network site (SNS) use, and/or smartphone addiction by …

Aims In light of the rise in research on technological addictions and smartphone addiction in
particular, the aim of this paper was to review the relevant literature on the topic of …

Smart mobile devices (SMDs) can meet users' high expectations by executing computational
intensive applications but they only have limited resources, including CPU, memory, battery …

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

Background Research literature on problematic smartphone use, or smartphone addiction,
has proliferated. However, relationships with existing categories of psychopathology are not …

This study investigated the effects of smartphone use on the perceived academic
performance of elementary school students. Following the derivation of four hypotheses from …

For many individuals, excessive smartphone use interferes with everyday life. In the present
study, we recruited a non-clinical sample of 296 participants for a cross-sectional survey of …