ArticleFrontiers in psychiatry2017
Development of a Mobile Phone Addiction Craving Scale and Its Validation in a Spanish Adult Population.
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26 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Mapping research on ICT addiction: a comprehensive review of Internet, smartphone, social media, and gaming addictions.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Pooled it
- Mobile Phone Use and Mental Health. A Review of the Research That Takes a Psychological Perspective on Exposure.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2018Pooled it
- More boring, more craving for smartphone use? The moderating role of fear of missing out.Journal of behavioral addictions · 2025Trial
- Mobile Phone Craving in Spain: Associations with Impulsivity, Anxiety, Gaming Problem, and Gambling Severity.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Craving as a transdiagnostic marker of addiction? A perspective for behavioral addictions.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2026Article
- Mindfulness as a protective factor against online risk-taking in middle school-aged children: the predictive effects of demographic and personal characteristics.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Evolution of Problematic Mobile Phone Use in the Spanish Population over the Last Decade.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Personality and Smartphone Addiction in Romania's Digital Age: The Mediating Role of Professional Status and the Moderating Effect of Adaptive Coping.Journal of Intelligence · 2025Article
- Explanatory model of behavioral adaptation in video game addiction among adolescents in urban and rural Peru: the mediating role of anxiety.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Reliability and validity of the Chinese version of the doomscrolling scale and the mediating role of doomscrolling in the bidirectional relationship between insomnia and depression.BMC psychiatry · 2024Article
- Towards comprehending internet gaming disorder: evaluating the psychometric properties of the Polish adaptation of the Craving for Internet Gaming Scale.Postepy psychiatrii neurologii · 2024Article
- Pitfalls in the use of mobile wireless devices in healthcare: Distraction, errors, procrastination, and burnout.American journal of medicine open · 2022Article
- Toward Research-Informed Design Implications for Interventions Limiting Smartphone Use: Functionalities Review of Digital Well-being Apps.JMIR formative research · 2022Article
- Perceived stress and mobile phone addiction among college students during the 2019 coronavirus disease: The mediating roles of rumination and the moderating role of self-control.Personality and individual differences · 2022Article
- Perceived stress and mobile phone addiction among college students: The roles of self-control and security.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
- The relationship of smartphone addiction with psychological distress and neuroticism among university medical students.BMC psychology · 2020Article
- Mobile Phone Addiction and Risk-Taking Behavior among Chinese Adolescents: A Moderated Mediation Model.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Increased problematic smartphone use among children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in the community: The utility of Chinese version of Smartphone Addiction Proneness Scale.Journal of the Chinese Medical Association : JCMA · 2020Article
- The Impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences on Mobile Phone Addiction in Chinese College Students: A Serial Multiple Mediator Model.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
- Problematic Mobile Phone and Smartphone Use Scales: A Systematic Review.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Review
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Abstract
In some people, problematic cell phone use can lead to situations in which they lose control, similar to those observed in other cases of addiction. Although different scales have been developed to assess its severity, we lack an instrument that is able to determine the desire or craving associated with it. Thus, with the objective of evaluating craving for cell phone use, in this study, we develop and present the Mobile Phone Addiction Craving Scale (MPACS). It consists of eight Likert-style items, with 10 response options, referring to possible situations in which the interviewee is asked to evaluate the degree of restlessness that he or she feels if the cell phone is unavailable at the moment. It can be self-administered or integrated in an interview when abuse or problems are suspected. With the existence of a single dimension, reflected in the exploratory factor analysis (EFA), the scale presents adequate reliability and internal consistency (α = 0.919). Simultaneously, we are able to show significantly increased correlations (
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