Smartphone Addiction and Social Supporta Three-year Longitudinal Study

  1. Juan Herrero 1
  2. Andrea Torres 1
  3. Pep Vivas 2
  4. Alberto Urueña 3
  1. 1 Universidad de Oviedo
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    Universidad de Oviedo

    Oviedo, España

    ROR https://ror.org/006gksa02

  2. 2 Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
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    Universitat Oberta de Catalunya

    Barcelona, España

    ROR https://ror.org/01f5wp925

  3. 3 Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
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    Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

    Madrid, España

    ROR https://ror.org/03n6nwv02

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Journal:
Psychosocial Intervention

ISSN: 1132-0559

Year of publication: 2019

Volume: 28

Issue: 3

Pages: 111-118

Type: Article

DOI: 10.5093/PI2019A6 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openOpen access editor

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Abstract

For some years now, scholars have been exploring some of the negative consequences for the psychosocial well-being of users that the rapid incorporation of smartphones into our lives has caused. Most of the empirical studies to date are cross-sectional and are carried out with participants from convenience samples, which has been a limitation in this field. In this study, we evaluated the evolution over three years of smartphone addiction and social support in 241 Spanish users of a representative national sample. The results of the analysis of latent growth and growth mixture modeling indicate that both trajectories are interconnected: the more addiction decreases, the more social support increases. In addition, high levels of addiction and relatively low levels of support remained stable over time in a group of users. Users of this high-addiction group would represent a trend in the digital society characterized by higher rates of loneliness and technological dependence.

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