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What is Generalised Use

Chapter 50
Encyclopedia of Mobile Phone Behavior
In PMPU, this refers to the overall pattern of cognitions and behaviours that are associated with the overuse of any type of mobile phone application via de mobile phone.
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The Conceptualization and Assessment of Problematic Mobile Phone Use
Olatz Lopez-Fernandez (Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium), Daria J. Kuss (Nottingham Trent University, UK), Mark D. Griffiths (Nottingham Trent University, UK), and Joël Billieux (Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium)
Copyright: © 2015 |Pages: 16
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-8239-9.ch050
Abstract
Despite its many undoubted advantages, mobile phone use has been associated with harmful and/or maladaptive behaviour. Problematic mobile phone use is considered as an inability of individuals to regulate their use of the mobile phone, and it eventually leads to negative consequences in daily life. The first goal of this article is to define and conceptualize the various facets of dysfunctional mobile phone use. The second goal is to describe the various steps of validating an instrument to assess problematic mobile phone use. Such an instrument needs to (1.) specify the user's mobile phone behaviour (i.e., the applications they use on their mobile phone), (2.) provide accurate measures of actual mobile phone use, and (3.) assess the extent of problematic mobile phone use. A comprehensive review of the existing validated questionnaires is provided. The theoretical and methodological limitations of the existing measures are then discussed.
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