ReviewFrontiers in psychiatry2020
The Psychology of Addictive Smartphone Behavior in Young Adults: Problematic Use, Social Anxiety, and Depressive Stress.
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- You are doubly excluded: the interplay of cyberostracism and perceived parental phubbing in predicting problematic smartphone use.Addictive behaviors reports · 2026Article
- Cyber behaviour and personality nexus: clustering around security attitudes, FoMO, problematic social media use, and cognitive and personality traits?Royal Society open science · 2026Article
- The effects of phone addiction on nursing students' health.BMC public health · 2026Article
- Physical exercise and problematic smartphone use among adolescents in Western China: a multi-center cross-sectional study on the serial mediation of self-control and meaning in life.BMC public health · 2026Article
- Recreational Screen Time at University Entry and Mental Health and Well-Being Over First Year: U-Flourish Student Well-Being Research: Temps d'écran à des fins de divertissement au moment de l'entrée à l'université, santé mentale et bien-être au cours de la première année : programme de recherche U-Flourish sur le bien-être des étudiants.Canadian journal of psychiatry. Revue canadienne de psychiatrie · 2026Article
- The mediating effect of depression and eating behaviours on the relationship between smartphone addiction and obesity in adolescents.BMC psychology · 2026Article
- Parent-Adolescent Mobile Phone Addiction and Mental Health: Actor-Partner Effects in 4,633 Chinese Dyads.Psychology research and behavior management · 2026Article
- Loneliness and rumination serially mediate the relationship between social anxiety and internet addiction among Turkish university students.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Psychosocial Risk Factors and Adolescent Problematic Internet Gaming (PIG): The Mediating Roles of Deviant Peer Affiliation and Hedonic Gaming Experience.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Exploring associations between problematic technology-dependent behaviors, physical and mental health, sleep quality, and academic procrastination among medical students.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Problematic Smartphone Use Is Associated With Current and Previous Major Depressive Disorder.Psychiatry investigation · 2025Article
- Stress, loneliness, depression, anxiety and problematic smartphone use among a sample of Syrian refugee adolescents: a network approach.Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health · 2025Article
- Intervention Effects of Group Sandplay Therapy on Children at Risk of Smartphone Addiction: Focusing on Internalizing and Externalizing Problems in the Korean Youth Self Report.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- New Perspective on Digital Well-Being by Distinguishing Digital Competency From Dependency: Network Approach.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Article
- Relations between peer bullying and adolescent depression: the mediating effect of cellphone usage.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Network analysis of the association between social anxiety and problematic smartphone use in college students.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Social anxiety and smartphone addiction among college students: the mediating role of loneliness.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Measuring attraction to screen devices in early childhood: development of the Affinity-TV and Affinity-Mobile scales.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2025Article
- Psychological distress and problematic internet use among language teachers: a latent profile analysis.PeerJ · 2025Article
- Mechanisms that link circadian preference to problematic smartphone and social media use in young adults.PloS one · 2025Article
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Abstract
This review enhances the existing literature on relationships between problematic smartphone use (PSU), psychopathology, addictive personality, and online social engagement as regards young adults, giving attention to predictive determinants of addictive behavior in smartphone usage. My article cumulates previous research findings on the psychology of addictive smartphone behavior in terms of problematic use, social anxiety, and depressive stress by focusing on the relationship among mobile social media usage, smartphone addiction risk, mental health issues, and individual well-being. The inspected collected findings prove that depression and social anxiety constitute risk determinants for greater PSU and that particular categories of smartphone applications are positively related to well-being. State anxiety and motivations represent significant predictors of PSU. High PSU affects participation in social engagement. As limitations in the current review, my results point towards relevant avenues of research on social consequences of teenagers' smartphone problematic use. Future directions should clarify whether compulsive smartphone use adversely affects both mental and physical health in the long run.
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