Mobile Ubiquity: Understanding the Relationship between Cognitive Absorption, Smartphone Addiction and Social Network Services

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dc.contributor.authorBarnes, Stuart
dc.contributor.authorPressey, Andrew
dc.contributor.authorScornavacca, Eusebio
dc.date.accessioned2019-04-01T18:37:22Z
dc.date.available2019-04-01T18:37:22Z
dc.date.issued2019-01
dc.descriptionJournal article exploring technology addiction to social media and its affects on people.en_US
dc.description.abstractThe purpose of the present study is to examine the differences between user addiction to smartphone devices versus addiction to social network services (SNS), and the role of user perceptions. While a growing corpus of work has demonstrated the potentially deleterious effects of smartphone usage, relatively few studies have differentiated between addiction to the device versus addiction to social network services or measured the influence of user perceptions on smartphone addiction. To contribute to knowledge on this subject, the present study had three key aims. The first was to examine the differences between smartphone addiction and social network services addiction. The second aim was to understand the influence of user perceptions on addiction (measured through cognitive absorption to examine users’ state of involvement and engagement with software and technology). Our final aim was to examine differences for demographic factors for smartphone and social networking services addiction and user perceptions. Based on a survey of business students at a university in the Mid-Atlantic region of United States, the results showed that addiction to smartphone devices is greater than addiction to social networking services and varies by educational attainment, while social networking services\ usage does not vary by gender, age or education. Further, users addicted to smartphones and social networking services experience higher levels of cognitive absorption, particularly by females when using social networking services and greater for social networking services than smartphones. Finally, we find that the impact of cognitive absorption on smartphone addiction is mediated by addiction to SNS services.en_US
dc.description.urihttps://www.researchgate.net/publication/327694606_Mobile_Ubiquity_Understanding_the_Impact_of_Cognitive_Absorption_on_Smartphone_Addictionen_US
dc.format.extent53 pagesen_US
dc.genrejournal articleen_US
dc.identifierdoi:10.13016/m2wytz-hbrw
dc.identifier.citationBarnes, S. J., Pressey, A. D., & Scornavacca, E. (2019). Mobile ubiquity: Understanding the relationship between cognitive absorption, smartphone addiction and social network services. Computers in Human Behavior, 90, 246-258. doi:10.1016/j.chb.2018.09.013en_US
dc.identifier.uri10.1016/j.chb.2018.09.013
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11603/13290
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherComputers in Human Behavioren_US
dc.relation.isAvailableAtUniversity of Baltimore
dc.subjectSocial Mediaen_US
dc.subjectAddictionen_US
dc.subjectsocial media addictionen_US
dc.subjectmobile ubiquityen_US
dc.subjecttechnology addictionen_US
dc.subjectproblematic smartphone usageen_US
dc.subjectuser perceptionsen_US
dc.subjectdemographic factorsen_US
dc.titleMobile Ubiquity: Understanding the Relationship between Cognitive Absorption, Smartphone Addiction and Social Network Servicesen_US
dc.typeTexten_US

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