A model of the relationship between psychological characteristics, mobile phone addiction and use of mobile phones by Taiwanese university female students

► The hypothesis model of this research is significantly related. ► The result support the daily calls and daily sent text messages as indicators for usage behavior. ► There is no relationship between social extroversion and mobile phone behavior. While many researches have analyzed the psychologica...

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Published in:Computers in human behavior 2012-11, Vol.28 (6), p.2152-2159
Main Authors: Hong, Fu-Yuan, Chiu, Shao-I., Huang, Der-Hsiang
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Addiction
Adult and adolescent clinical studies
Anxiety
Biological and medical sciences
Cell phones
College Students
Females
Human behavior
Mathematical models
Medical sciences
Messages
Miscellaneous
Mobile phone addiction
Mobile phone usage behavior
Personality
Prediction
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Self Esteem
Social extraversion
Stockpiling
Students
Texts
Universities
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Summary:► The hypothesis model of this research is significantly related. ► The result support the daily calls and daily sent text messages as indicators for usage behavior. ► There is no relationship between social extroversion and mobile phone behavior. While many researches have analyzed the psychological antecedents of mobile phone addiction and mobile phone usage behavior, their relationship with psychological characteristics remains mixed. We investigated the relationship between psychological characteristics, mobile phone addiction and use of mobile phones for 269 Taiwanese female university students who were administered Rosenberg’s self-esteem scale, Lai’s personality inventory, and a mobile phone usage questionnaire and mobile phone addiction scale. The result showing that: (1) social extraversion and anxiety have positive effects on mobile phone addiction, and self-esteem has negative effects on mobile phone addiction. (2) Mobile phone addiction has a positive predictive effect on mobile phone usage behavior. The results of this study identify personal psychological characteristics of Taiwanese female university students which can significantly predict mobile phone addiction; female university students with mobile phone addiction will make more phone calls and send more text messages. These results are discussed and suggestions for future research for school and university students are provided.
ISSN:0747-5632
1873-7692
DOI:10.1016/j.chb.2012.06.020