Predicting problematic mobile phone use in adolescente: an empirical study on factors for MPPUSA

Olatz Lopez Fernandez, José Luis Losada-Lopez, María Luisa Honrubia-Serrano, Montserrat Freixa-Blanxart

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Abstract

It has been undertaken an empirical study to predict the problematic mobile telephone use in adolescents through the most extended test to measure it: the Mobile Phone Problematic Use Scale or "MPPUS" (Bianchi & Phillips, 2005) which was adapted previously for Adolescents, the "MPPUSA" (Lopez-Fernandez, Honrubia-Serrano & Freixa-Blanxart, 2012). The purpose of this work is to predict this new psychological construct in relation to the following factors: gender (male, female), groups of adolescents' age (11-14 or 15-18 years old), kind of school (public or private school), parents' level of education (at least one with university level or not) and consumption of drugs (smoke/drink alcohol or not). The sample size was 1438 adolescents from Spain and England, from 11 to 18 years old. It was administered a paper-pencil questionnaire from 2009-2010 with the sociodemographic variables studied and the MPPUSA adapted to each culture. Main results have been extracted through a logistic regression analysis to obtain an equation for purposes of prediction or calculation of the risk on "problematic mobile phone use", to estimate a probability with some validity and accuracy for a subject. The retrieved model correctly classifies a 60.1% of the subjects and with a sensitivity of 66.6% for subjects with problematic use. The findings let us to share and discuss the main socio-demographic factors studied in relation with this new addictive phenomenon in adolescence and also contributing to lead this new psychological field based on technological addictions.
Original languageEnglish
Pages226-226
Number of pages1
Publication statusPublished - 2012
Externally publishedYes
EventEuropean Congress of Methodology 2012 - University of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Duration: 17 Jul 201220 Jul 2012
Conference number: 5th

Conference

ConferenceEuropean Congress of Methodology 2012
Abbreviated titleECM 2012
Country/TerritorySpain
CitySantiago de Compostela
Period17/07/1220/07/12

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