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标题：Psychological Predictors of Mobile Phone Use and Addiction among Youths
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作者：Kalaivani A/P Munusamy ; Akmar Hayati Ahmad Ghazali ; Julia Wirza Mohd Zawawi 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：2021
卷号：11
期号：15
页码：28-42
DOI：10.6007/IJARBSS/v11-i15/10633
语种：English
出版社：Human Resource Management Academic Research Society
摘要：This paper aims to provide a review on the psychological characteristic that indicates the mobile phone usage behavior and mobile phone addiction. There were identified psychological characteristics such as social extraversion, anxiety and low self-esteem have a positively associated with mobile phone usage. For many young adolescents’ mobile phones are prerequisites, but these devices can adversely bring the impact to the mental health and quality of life? Rapid mobile technological advancement provides an excellent range of features and enhanced portability that increases the prevalence of mobile phone use, particularly among youths. A vast array of studies has been reported that cell phone addiction will have adverse effects on physical and mental health social adaptation, for instance poor performance in academic, interactive problems, health issue, stress, anxiety, and even loose hope and commit suicide. Hence, this paper emphasizes the necessity of proper use of technology and provides direction to the technology-savvy youth in particular on how to reap the technology's advantage for their positive growth. This paper presents an integrative conceptual framework, and a detailed summary for each topic. This study identifies three psychological characteristics namely self-esteem, social extraversion and anxiety that derived towards the mobile phone use and will be impact to the long term on mobile phone addiction. An integrative conceptual framework and a detailed summary table are presented in this paper. This paper demonstrates a model on relationship between psychological characteristic, use of mobile phones and mobile phone addiction among youths.