Jenaro c, flores n, gomezvela m, gonzalezgil f, caballo c. The mobile phone problem use scale and how much you really. Cellular phone use cpu is an important part of life for many adolescents. The original questionnaire included four subscales. In order to assess mobile phone usage, problematic use of mobile phones pump scale was used for this study. Each question is answered on likert scale from strongly disagree, somewhat disagree, neither agree not disagree, somewhat agree and strongly agree and scored as 1. To find the potential predictors, we examined the correlation between problematic mobile phone use and personality traits reported in addiction literature, which indicated that problematic mobile phone use was a function of gender, selfmonitoring, and.
There are hardly any scales for measuring possible problematic use of mobile phones, and none at all adapted exclusively for the spanish adolescent population. Prevalence of problematic mobile phone use in british adolescents. Currently, the only validated multidimensional scale is the problematic mobile phone use questionnaire pmpuq1 6,20. The latter study generally confirmed the threefactor structure.
The aim of the current study was to investigate the prevalence of smartphone addiction and the associated factors in male and female undergraduates. Towards a crosscultural research in problematic mobile phone use. The higher scores indicate more usage of mobile phones and more problematic use. Results provide preliminary support for the use of the pump scale to measure problematic use of mobile phones.
Problematic internet and mobile phone use in adolescents. Although selfcontrol was found to be a critical predictor of problematic mobile phone use, no study has ever explored the association between selfcontrol and mobile phone use patterns as well as the possible pathway how selfcontrol affects problematic mobile phone use. In the absence of such a frame, considerable amounts of screening in the mobile phone frame are necessary to identify those eligible i. Abstract development of a problematic mobile phone use scale for university students. Mobile phone use was nevertheless shown to imply various types of dysfunctional behaviors and adverse consequences, raising the need to develop multidimensional measures. One major problem in research on problematic mobile phone use is the inconsistency in its definition and assessment. Using mobile phones for survey research 616 rest of the interviews are made to fixed phone respondents if an adequate frame of mobile only users does not exist. Problematic mobile phone among medical students using pump. Prevalence of mobile phone overuse depends largely on definition and thus the scales used to quantify a subjects behaviors. Development of a problematic mobile phone use scale for.
Impact of mobile phone usage on academic performance. The study also develops a second multifactorial multiitem scale to assess a range of negative consequences from problematic mobile use such as. This crosssectional study was conducted in 2016 and included. To determine the scale criterion validity of pmpus, the mobile phone problem use scale. Psychometric validation of the compulsive internet use. Problematic mobile phone use questionnaire factor 1. Adolescents problematic mobile phone use, fear of missing out. Such problematic mobile phone use can be considered to be an addictionlike behavior. Results supported a unidimensional factor structure for the 20item selfreport. Problematic use of the mobile phone the use of the mobile phone has instrumental and symbolic functions for young people. One of the issues we see with use of this scale is that it was developed in 2005 before the current smartphone usage level but the questions.
How many calls do you make with your mobile phone per day. An examination of problematic mobile phone use in the united arab. The scale most widely used internationally is the mobile phone problem use scale mppus. A total of 11,111 adolescent students in southern taiwan were randomly. Problematic use of the internet and smartphones in.
Wander linden et al have published this inventory and it includes 30 items with 5 dimensions about cell phones. Impact of problematic mobile phone use and insufficient. Each question is answered on likert scale from strongly disagree, somewhat disagree, neither agree not disagree, somewhat agree and strongly agree and scored as 15 respectively. Short version of the smartphone addiction scale adapted to spanish and french. Impact of mobile phone addiction on adolescents life. The problematic mobile phone use questionnaire pmpuq. Research article measuring problematic mobile phone use. Pdf isnt really a good format for reading on mobile devices, since they have varying screen sizes and pdf has completely fixed formatting. Two main scales are in use, the 20item selfreported problematic use of mobile phones pump scale, and the mobile phone problem use scale mppus, which have been used both with adult and adolescent populations. The current article describes what can be considered dysfunctional use of the mobile phone and emphasizes its multifactorial nature. Smartphones are becoming increasingly indispensable in everyday life for most undergraduates in china, and this has been associated with problematic use or addiction.
We also include source code to process and visualise these data. The association between problematic cellular phone use and. Problematic use of mobile phone is associated with other risk. The problematic mobile phone use questionnaireshort version pmpuqsv is a validated instrument that measures multiple aspects of pmpu.
Participants were recruited from a university campus, health science center, and other public locations. Adolescents problematic mobile phone use, fear of missing. The selfrating questionnaire for adolescent problematic mobile phone use and the center for epidemiologic studies depression scale were used to assess pmpu and depression symptoms, respectively. Epub is designed for reflowable content, meaning that an. Prevalence and correlates of problematic smartphone use in. Frontiers problematic use of mobile phones in australiais. Study of mobile phone usage among the teenagers and. Problematic mobile phone use pmpu was assessed by the problematic mobile phone use scale 92, which was translated into chinese and proved to be valid 93. Objective this study was designed to investigate the revised and short version of the smartphone addiction scale and the proof of its validity in adolescents. The problematic use of mobile phones among adolescents has not been widely studied. It aims to describe the characteristics and patterns of this use, to categorize problematic users of either technology and to test category validity by developing the problematic internet entertainment use. The 30item problematic mobile phone use questionnaire pmpu billieux et al.
There are very few instruments for assessing potential technological addiction to mobile phones, or for categorizing different types of users or uses. Several authors have investigated the risks arising from the growth in mobile phone use e. The reliability and validity of the problematic mobile phone use scale10, a frequently employed measure of problematic use of mobile phones, was also. The app simply calculated the duration the phone was active using screen onoff as the indicator. Short version of the smartphone addiction scale adapted to. Given that the distribution of smartphones is a relatively recent phenomenon, most of the studies about this addiction have been carried out through instruments designed to measure problems with mobile phones, such as the problematic mobile phone use pmpu. All of them have shown their usefulness and good validity and reliability, but it is dif. Problematic mobile phone among medical students using pump scale. Problematic mobile phone among medical students using. We compared 23 participants actual smartphone use over a twoweek period with self. Development and preliminary psychometric properties of the pump scale hang pham academia. From those late 1980s, india has come a long way today. Statistical tests were conducted to identify the potential role of mobile phone use patterns in the association between selfcontrol and problematic mobile phone use.
Pdf development of a problematic mobile phone use scale. Selfcontrol and problematic mobile phone use in chinese. This study aims to develop a problematic mobile phone use scale pmpus to determine the problematic mobile phone use by university students. Our aim was to derive a short version of the mobile phone problem use scale mppus using data from 412 adolescents of the swiss hermes health effects related to mobile phone use in adolescents cohort. In this paper we explore the accuracy of using selfreported estimates when compared with actual smartphone use. As extraverts are more likely to take risks, and young. The relationship between problematic mobile use and sleep.
Each item is assessed on a 4 point likert scale, allowing dimensional answers. It has emerged as the secondlargest market after china for mobile phone handsets. The potential for problematic mobile phone use pmpu has increased as mobile phones have evolved from a device devoted to communication between two people, to smartphones which provide internet access and allow for a wide range of online activities. I try to avoid using my mobile phone when driving on the motorway 3. Our aim was to derive a short version of the mobile phone problem use scale mppus using data from 412 adolescents of the swiss.
However, problematic cpu may complicate physiological and psychological problems. The aim of our study was to examine the associations between problematic cpu and a series of risky behaviors and low selfesteem in taiwanese adolescents. Mar 12, 2019 in addition, meaningful differences were found between gender and age groups in this study, with females and users in the 1825 yearold age group showing higher mean mobile phone problem use scale mppus scores. The psychometric characteristics of the scale were investigated. Problematic use of mobile phone and nomophobia among french. Symptoms of addiction were included in a mobile phone problem use scale mppus developed by bianchi and phillips 2005.
Assessment of problematic internet use by the compulsive internet use scale and the internet addiction test. Problematic mobile phone use, consumer behaviour, scale development, impulse buying. Types of smartphone usage and relations with problematic. Problematic mobile phone use pmpu has become a public health issue in china, particularly in adolescents and young adults. Factor structure and measurement invariance of the. The age range consists of 1665 years, with 1,126 surveys conducted. The mobile phone usage questionnaire mpuq adapted from twum 2011. The most widely used scale is the mobile phone problem use scale mppus, which is used to study. Physical activity pa was assessed with a reliable question from the youth risk behavior survey. This survey included the smartphone addiction scale sas 16 and the.
Problematic mobile phone use measured by the mppus10 we used a shortened 10item version mppus10 foerster et al. Problematic mobile phone use pmpu is a phenomenon related to maladaptive mobile phone use, which could present a pattern of dependency involving negative consequences e. Pdf psychological predictors of problem mobile phone use. Method a set of questionnaires were provided to a total of 540. Results supported a unidimensional factor structure for the 20item selfreport problematic use of mobile phones pump scale.
For many perpetrators, it can turn into a behavioural addiction, although this is not a recognized medical condition. Types of smartphone usage and relations with problematic smartphone behaviors. To measure problem use, the mobile phone problem use scale was devised and validated as a reliable selfreport instrument, against the addiction potential scale and overall mobile phone usage levels. Normalization, validity and reliability of cellphone overuse scale cos among university students. While driving, i find myself in dangerous situations because of my mobile phone use 5. The current study aimed to test the psychometric characteristics of a chinese adaption of the pmpuqsv and examine its measurement. In addition, the researchers asked participants to complete the mobile phone problem use scale mppus, a 27 item questionnaire that has positive correlations with selfreported mobile phone use. In addition, it suggested cutting off the values by gender in order to determine smartphone addiction and elaborate the characteristics of smartphone usage in adolescents. Problematic mobile phone use was defined as continued mobile phone use in spite of negative outcomes and societal restrictions. Problem use was a function of age, extraversion, and low selfesteem, but not neuroticism. Prevalence of problematic cell phone use in an adult. Gender differences in factors associated with smartphone. The problematic mobile phone use questionnaire pmpuq 1.
Study participants for exploratory factor analysis efa. A german version of the original mppus consisting of 27 items was shortened by principal component analysis pca using baseline data collected in 2012. Addictive personality and problematic mobile phone use. Bianchi and phillips have introduced a 27item mobile phone problem use scale in the following referred to as mppus27which addresses different aspects of addiction bianchi and phillips 2005.
Problematic cell phone use has alarmingly increased in industrialized countries in the past 10 years. With the popularity of mobile phones, problematic mobile phone use is getting increasing attention in recent years. Problematic mobile phone use and addiction across generations. Table s1 in electronic supplementary material of the mobile phone problem use scale mppus, which addresses different issues of problematic mobile phone use by means of a 27item questionnaire bianchi and phillips 2005. Study participants for exploratory factor analysis efa and confirmatory factor analysis cfa were 725 university students, for testretest 126 university students. Problematic internet and mobile phone use in adolescents in. The aims of the present study are 1 to validate a new questionnaire assessing problematic mobile phone use. This study adapts the short version of the smartphone addiction scale sassv into spanish and into french.
Psychological predictors of problem mobile phone use. The problematic mobile phone use questionnaire pmpuq 2 was developed to assess various facets of problematic mobile phone use. Development and preliminary psychometric properties of the pump scale. The sample for the study was 300 respondents selected from the total population of 6,482 respondents. Currently, the only validated multidimensional scale is the problematic mobile phone use questionnaire pmpuq billieux, et al. The pmpuq is a 30item questionnaire that measures four distinct facets of problematic mobile phone use. Psychologists typically rely on selfreport data when quantifying mobile phone usage, despite little evidence of its validity. Additionally, problematic mobile phone use was linked with mobile phone use while driving. Problematic use of the mobile phone is considered as an inability to regulate ones use of the mobile phone, which eventually involves negative consequences in daily life e. Validation and psychometric properties of mobile phone. Stratified sampling technique was employed to select the sample.
Author links open overlay panel olatz lopezfernandez. It would be interesting to assess how increased use of mp might negatively impact academic performance, mental health, and subjective wellbeing. The problematic use of the mp particularly affected women and was associated with cyberaddiction and sleeping problems. Pdf development of a problematic mobile phone use scale for. Smartphone addiction scale sas 22, the smartphone addiction inventory spai 23, or the one used in saudi arabia 24. This study aimed to develop and assess the psychometric properties of an english language measure of problematic mobile phone use. Development of a problematic mobile phone use scale for turkish adolescents cem oktay gu. The role of impulsivity in actual and problematic use of. Problematic mobile phone use pmpu is associated with potentially harmful andor maladaptive behaviour that can occur in a number of different circumstances while using mobile phones e. I use my mobile phone in situations that would qualify as dangerous 4. The conceptualization and assessment of problematic mobile. The problematic mobile phone use scale developed by guzeller and cosguner 29 for adolescents is a threefactor construct negative effects, compulsionpersistence, and withdrawaltolerance with 18 items.
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