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Problematic use of the smartphone by university students

abstract

The use of the Smartphone is now a reality that cannot be denied, although repeated use of\r\nthis can lead to development of problematic behaviour. This paper presents the results of the\r\nadministration of Mobile Phone Problem Use Scale MPPUSS designed by Bianchi and Phillips\r\n(2005) in a sample of 1044 university students. The principal objective was to determine the\r\ndegree of use of the mobile phone or Smartphone by university students, and to find out if its use\r\nindicates problematic conduct with this, the hypothesis being whether there were differences in\r\nthe sample going by gender and age. The main result achieved is that students do not think they\r\nmake any problematic use of the smartphone, but there are indeed differences determining that\r\nit is women who are more predisposed to this as well as the younger students. We can conclude\r\nfrom this that the university student today is in a stage of negation of problematic behaviour.

Keywords:

Addiction, Smartphone, university students, problematic uses.

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Authors

Verónica Marín Díaz - Universidad de Córdoba
Esther Vega Gea - Universidad de Córdoba
Begoña E. Sampedro Requena - Universidad de Córdoba