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Relationships among smartphone addiction, anxiety, and family relations

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  • Nazir S. Hawi
  • Maya Samaha

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Smartphones have become ubiquitous in people’s lives to an extent that necessitates the investigation of their negative impact. The scarcity of such investigations triggered our interest in examining the relationships among smartphone addiction, anxiety, and family relations. A total of 381 university students participated in an online survey composed of demographic information, the Smartphone Addiction Scale – Short Version, and the Beck Anxiety Inventory. Binary logistic regression analysis and structural equation modelling showed that undergraduate students who had smartphone addiction demonstrated greater odds of having high anxiety compared to those who were not addicted, and students who had high anxiety exhibited greater odds of having clinically significant problems in their family relations. Nevertheless, path analysis showed that anxiety mediated a positive relationship between smartphone addiction and problematic family relations.

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  • Nazir S. Hawi & Maya Samaha, 2017. "Relationships among smartphone addiction, anxiety, and family relations," Behaviour and Information Technology, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 36(10), pages 1046-1052, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:tbitxx:v:36:y:2017:i:10:p:1046-1052
    DOI: 10.1080/0144929X.2017.1336254
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