Problematic smartphone usage and subjective and psychological well-being
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posted on 2019-08-01, 00:00 authored by Sharon HorwoodSharon Horwood, Jeromy AnglimJeromy Anglim© 2019 Despite a growing awareness that problematic usage of smartphones is becoming a significant public health issue, there is limited research on how problematic smartphone usage relates to the humanistic concepts of well-being, particularly those captured in Ryff's six psychological well-being dimensions: positive relations, autonomy, environmental mastery, personal growth, purpose in life, and self-acceptance. The current study aimed to provide a comprehensive assessment of the relationship between general and problematic smartphone usage and subjective well-being and psychological well-being using long-form, theoretically grounded measures. Australian adults (n = 539, 79% female; age in years M = 25.1, SD = 7.8) completed Diener's Satisfaction with Life Scale, the PANAS, and Ryff's 84-item measure of psychological well-being. Results showed that problematic smartphone usage was correlated with lower well-being on almost all scales. In particular, negative affect, autonomy, and environmental mastery had the largest negative correlations with problematic smartphone usage. Given the stable and dispositional nature of well-being, it seems likely that much of the relationship is driven by a common underlying tendency to experience anxiety, negative emotions, and a lack of control, combined with a tendency to engage in maladaptive coping and compulsive behavior.
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Computers in human behaviorVolume
97Pagination
44-50Location
Amsterdam, The NetherlandsPublisher DOI
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0747-5632Language
engPublication classification
C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journalCopyright notice
2019, ElsevierPublisher
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