This thesis focuses on the development and adaptation of psychometric scales to evaluate the problematic use of Internet and the mobile phone in adolescents in Barcelona and London. 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 Scale for Adolescents” and adapting the “Mobile Phone Problematic Use Scalefor Adolescents” (here after, PIEUSA and MPPUSA, respectively). It also proposes a statistical model to obtain predictive factors and estimates the prevalence of problematic users of both technologies so as to more effectively describe their psychological and social profile and examine...
Problematic cell phone use has alarmingly increased in industrialized countries in the past 10 years...
Our aim was to derive a short version of the Mobile Phone Problem Use Scale (MPPUS) using data from ...
The increased use of smartphones among adolescents has highlighted the need to distinguish between p...
This study uses an innovative statistical strategy to test the role of certain variables as predicto...
The problematic use of mobile phones among adolescents has not been widely studied. There are very f...
Many researchers and professionals have reported nonsubstance addiction to online entertainments in ...
Many researchers and professionals have reported nonsubstance addiction to online entertainments in ...
Addiction to the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) has become an important research t...
To investigate the associations between problematic mobile phone use and mental health and behaviour...
Background: The emerging field of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) has brought about ...
In the recent years, the rapid increase in mobile phone and Internet usage, has determined various ...
Aim: In recent years, mobile phone use has become increasingly common among Italian youth, while a g...
Objectives: Our aim was to derive a short version of the Mobile Phone Problem Use Scale (MPPUS) usin...
In the last two decades, scientific research has explored the problematic use of internet, videogame...
The objective of this work is to determine those variables that are related to the problematic use ...
Problematic cell phone use has alarmingly increased in industrialized countries in the past 10 years...
Our aim was to derive a short version of the Mobile Phone Problem Use Scale (MPPUS) using data from ...
The increased use of smartphones among adolescents has highlighted the need to distinguish between p...
This study uses an innovative statistical strategy to test the role of certain variables as predicto...
The problematic use of mobile phones among adolescents has not been widely studied. There are very f...
Many researchers and professionals have reported nonsubstance addiction to online entertainments in ...
Many researchers and professionals have reported nonsubstance addiction to online entertainments in ...
Addiction to the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) has become an important research t...
To investigate the associations between problematic mobile phone use and mental health and behaviour...
Background: The emerging field of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) has brought about ...
In the recent years, the rapid increase in mobile phone and Internet usage, has determined various ...
Aim: In recent years, mobile phone use has become increasingly common among Italian youth, while a g...
Objectives: Our aim was to derive a short version of the Mobile Phone Problem Use Scale (MPPUS) usin...
In the last two decades, scientific research has explored the problematic use of internet, videogame...
The objective of this work is to determine those variables that are related to the problematic use ...
Problematic cell phone use has alarmingly increased in industrialized countries in the past 10 years...
Our aim was to derive a short version of the Mobile Phone Problem Use Scale (MPPUS) using data from ...
The increased use of smartphones among adolescents has highlighted the need to distinguish between p...