Title: Self as an antecedent of mobile phone addiction

Authors: Hyoungkoo Khang; Hyung-Jin Woo; Jung Kyu Kim

Addresses: Department of Advertising and Public Relations, College of Communication and Information Sciences, University of Alabama, Box 870172, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487-0172, USA. ' Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, College of Communication and Social Science, Hanyang University, Korea Sa-dong 1271, Sangrok-gu, Ansan-si, Kyunggi-do, Korea. ' Department of Advertising and Public Relations, College of Communication and Information Sciences, University of Alabama, Box 870172, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487-0172, USA

Abstract: Employing a survey, the study examined self-esteem, self-efficacy, and self-control as antecedents of mobile phone addiction. The findings indicate that self-control is the most significant predictor of mobile phone addiction. Gender and age demonstrate a statistically significant relationship with a particular dimension of mobile phone addiction, compulsive anxiety. The findings are expected to help practitioners delineate elaborated approaches aimed at relieving a dimension of the addiction-like symptoms of technology use. In addition, scholars can utilise dimensions composed of mobile phone addiction and self-traits to examine the detailed and respective causality that exists between them.

Keywords: mobile communications; self traits; mobile phone addiction; mobile phones; cell phones; self-esteem; self-efficacy; self-control; gender; age.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMC.2012.044523

International Journal of Mobile Communications, 2012 Vol.10 No.1, pp.65 - 84

Published online: 28 Dec 2011 *

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