Emotion Regulation Difficulties, Personality, and Problematic Smartphone Use
Horwood S, Anglim J
Cyberpsychology, behavior and social networking · 35 citations
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- Design
- Cross-sectional study (classified by our AI screen)
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- People
- Main outcome
- Health markers and function
Who paid for it
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- Funding not disclosed
Publication
- Published
- 2020-10-22 · Cyberpsychol Behav Soc Netw · vol. 24 · issue 4 · pp. 275–281
- Publisher
- Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.
- Cited
- 73 citations · more than 98% of similar papers · 11.7× the field average
- Impact
- Top 10% most cited in its field
- References
- 51 works
- Access
- Open access (repository copy) · CC-BY
- Research areas
- Impact of Technology on Adolescents · Child Development and Digital Technology · Psychological and Temporal Perspectives Research
- Keywords
- smartphone addiction, emotional dysregulation, Big Five personality traits, impulsivity, impulse control difficulties, neuroticism, conscientiousness, Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale, university students
- MeSH
- humans, impulsive behavior, personality, adult, middle aged, australia, female, male, young adult, smartphone, surveys and questionnaires, neuroticism, emotional regulation, internet addiction disorder
2 authors
From AU
- Sharon Horwood · correspondingDeakin University
- Jeromy AnglimDeakin University
Abstract
Emotion regulation has been proposed as a mechanism for the development of problematic smartphone use. In addition to examining the relationship between emotion regulation difficulties and problematic smartphone use, the current study sought to be the first to examine the relationship between subscales of emotion regulation difficulties and problematic smartphone use. It also sought to determine whether emotion regulation difficulties provide incremental prediction of problematic smartphone use over and above personality. Participants were 692 Australian university students (81% female; age in years M = 25.23, SD = 7.48). They completed a measure of problematic smartphone use, the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale, and a measure of Big Five personality (IPIP 120). Overall emotion regulation difficulties (r = 0.40) and impulse control difficulties (r = 0.42) were moderately associated with problematic smartphone use, as were the Big Five factors of neuroticism (r = 0.43) and conscientiousness (r = -0.38). Although emotion regulation difficulties predicted problematic smartphone use, they did not provide incremental prediction over and above the Big Five. Findings indicate that personality is a robust predictor of problematic smartphone use. Emotion regulation difficulties, such as impulsivity, offer insights into the specific ways that personality is expressed in problematic smartphone use.
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