Smartphone Addiction and Social Support: a Three-year Longitudinal Study

• Juan Herrero ^[1] ; Andrea Torres ^[1] ; Pep Vivas ^[2] ; Alberto Urueña ^[3]
  1. [1] Universidad de Oviedo

     Universidad de Oviedo

     Oviedo, España

     
  2. [2] Universitat Oberta de Catalunya

     Universitat Oberta de Catalunya

     Barcelona, España

     
  3. [3] Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

     Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

     Madrid, España

     

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• Localización: Psychosocial Intervention, ISSN 1132-0559, Vol. 28, Nº. 3, 2019, págs. 111-118
• Idioma: inglés
• DOI: 10.5093/pi2019a6
• Títulos paralelos:
  • Adicción a los teléfonos inteligentes y apoyo social: un estudio longitudinal durante tres años
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  • español

    Desde hace algunos años los estudiosos han venido explorando algunas de las consecuencias negativas que la rápida incorporación de los teléfonos inteligentes en nuestra vida ha tenido en el bienestar psicosocial de los usuarios. La mayoría de los estudios empíricos hasta la fecha son de corte transversal y se realizan con participantes de muestras de conveniencia, lo que ha sido una limitación en este campo. En este estudio evaluamos la evolución durante tres años de la adicción a teléfonos inteligentes y el apoyo social en 241 usuarios españoles de una muestra nacional representativa.

    Los resultados del análisis del modelado del crecimiento y modelado de la mezcla de crecimiento indican que ambas trayectorias están interconectadas: a medida que aumenta la adicción aumenta el apoyo social. Además, los altos niveles de adicción y los niveles relativamente bajos de apoyo se mantuvieron estables en el tiempo en un grupo de usuarios. Los usuarios de este grupo de elevada adicción representarían una tendencia en la sociedad digital caracterizada por mayores índices de soledad y dependencia tecnológica.

  • English

    For some years now, scholars have been exploring some of the negative consequences for the psychosocial well-being of users that the rapid incorporation of smartphones into our lives has caused. Most of the empirical studies to date are cross-sectional and are carried out with participants from convenience samples, which has been a limitation in this field.

    In this study, we evaluated the evolution over three years of smartphone addiction and social support in 241 Spanish users of a representative national sample. The results of the analysis of latent growth and growth mixture modeling indicate that both trajectories are interconnected: the more addiction decreases, the more social support increases. In addition, high levels of addiction and relatively low levels of support remained stable over time in a group of users. Users of this high-addiction group would represent a trend in the digital society characterized by higher rates of loneliness and technological dependence.

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