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Social networking on smartphones: When mobile phones become addictive

Mohammad Salehan, +1 more
- 01 Nov 2013 - 
- Vol. 29, Iss: 6, pp 2632-2639
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It is found that the use of SNS mobile applications is a significant predictor of mobile addiction and the result shows that theUse of S NS mobile applications are affected by both SNS network size and SNS intensity of the user.
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This article is published in Computers in Human Behavior.The article was published on 2013-11-01. It has received 558 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Mobile Web.

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Prevalence and factors associated with smartphone addiction among medical students at King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah

TL;DR: The study showed no statistically significant relationship between smartphone addiction and smoking statusor degree of obesity, but there was a significant association between the total score on the smartphone addiction scale and daily usage hours.
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Beyond “connected presence”: Multimedia mobile instant messaging in close relationship management:

TL;DR: This study finds that WeChat’s wide functionality enabled multimodal communication in varying situations and analyzes how user construction attaches social meaning to certain communicative practices on WeChat.
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Passive objective measures in the assessment of problematic smartphone use: A systematic review.

TL;DR: Frequency of use and specific apps are most insightful for problematic usage and behavioural data can be collected within a short time period in passive objective monitoring.

Exploring the dimensions of nomophobia: Developing and validating a questionnaire using mixed methods research

TL;DR: In this article, the authors defined the dimensions of nomophobia as the fear of being out of mobile phone contact and developed a questionnaire to measure nomophobia using semi-structured interviews with nine undergraduate students at a large Midwestern university in the U.S.
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AppDetox: helping users with mobile app addiction

TL;DR: AppDetox is presented: an app that allows users to purposely create rules that keep them from using certain apps, and finds that people are rather rigorous when restricting their app use, and that mostly they suppress use of social networking and messaging apps.
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