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Chen, I.-H., Pakpour, A.H., Leung, H., Potenza, M.N., Su, J.-A., Lin, C.-Y. and Griffiths, M.D. 
ORCID: 0000-0001-8880-6524,
2020.
Comparing generalized and specific problematic smartphone/internet use: longitudinal relationships between smartphone application- based addiction and social media addiction and psychological distress.
Journal of Behavioral Addictions, 9 (2), pp. 410-419.
ISSN 2062-5871
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Abstract
Background and aims: The literature has proposed two types of problematic smartphone/internet use: generalized problematic use and specific problematic use. However, longitudinal findings on the associations between the two types of problematic use and psychological distress are lacking among East-Asians. The present study examined temporal associations between both generalized and specific problematic use of the smartphone/internet, and psychological distress.
Methods: Hong Kong University students (N 5 308; 100 males; mean age 5 23.75 years; SD ± 5.15) were recruited with follow-ups at three, six, and nine months after baseline assessment. All participants completed the Smartphone Application-Based Addiction Scale (for generalized problematic smartphone/internet use), the Bergen Social Media Addiction Scale (for specific problematic smartphone/internet use), and the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (for psychological distress) in each assessment. Latent growth modeling (LGM) was constructed to understand temporal associations between generalized/specific problematic use and psychological distress.
Results: The LGM suggested that the intercept of generalized problematic use was significantly associated with the intercept of psychological distress (standardized coefficient [b] 5 0.32; P < 0.01). The growth of generalized problematic use was significantly associated with the growth of psychological distress (b 5 0.51; P < 0.01). Moreover, the intercept of specific problematic use was significantly associated with the intercept of psychological distress (b 5 0.28; P < 0.01) and the growth of psychological distress (b 5 0.37; P < 0.01).
Conclusion: The initial level of problematic use of the smartphone/internet may prevent psychological distress.
| Item Type: | Journal article | ||||||
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| Publication Title: | Journal of Behavioral Addictions | ||||||
| Creators: | Chen, I.-H., Pakpour, A.H., Leung, H., Potenza, M.N., Su, J.-A., Lin, C.-Y. and Griffiths, M.D. | ||||||
| Publisher: | Akadémiai Kiadó | ||||||
| Date: | June 2020 | ||||||
| Volume: | 9 | ||||||
| Number: | 2 | ||||||
| ISSN: | 2062-5871 | ||||||
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| Rights: | © 2020 The Author(s). This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium for non-commercial purposes, provided the original author and source are credited, a link to the CC License is provided, and changes – if any – are indicated. | ||||||
| Divisions: | Schools > School of Social Sciences | ||||||
| Record created by: | Linda Sullivan | ||||||
| Date Added: | 29 Jun 2020 09:51 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 16 Jul 2021 14:15 | ||||||
| URI: | https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/40125 |
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