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标题：The Antecedents of Smartphone Technology Addiction among Hotel Employees
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作者：Mark Kasa ; Ulysses Ong ; Nursyafiqah Ramli 等
期刊名称：International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences
电子版ISSN：2222-6990
出版年度：2020
卷号：10
期号：7
页码：541-552
DOI：10.6007/IJARBSS/v10-i7/7456
语种：English
出版社：Human Resource Management Academic Research Society
摘要：Smartphone technology has surpassed the basic necessity of human basics needs, from a want to a need in life. It has become a very important tool that helps with our work and everything we do in our daily life. Hence, with the excessive freedom of use of smartphone technology, it has become an addictive behaviour which provides a negative effect affecting our daily life. This study investigates the addiction of smartphone technology in Sarawak based on their psychological and behavioural motives. In this present study, the link between antecedents such as perceived enjoyment, pastime, mood regulation and conformity (whether any positive or negative effect) and smartphone addiction was examined. Smartphone addiction was related to a greater amount of leisure time spent on the smartphone and was strongly related to a positive impact of smartphone use on a daily work basis. With that, this study will be conducted using SPSS version 23 to analyse the data collected from the distribution of questionnaires to the sample population which is 200. The sample size will be generated from the used of G*power software. Statistical data revealed that perceived enjoyment, mood regulation, pastime, and conformity positively significant with smartphone addiction. This study has covered the limitation of the unknown studies about smartphone addiction among hotel employees in the Asian context.