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Problematic Relationships with Smartphones of Spanish and Colombian University Students
The presence of smartphones in the lives of the population in general, and of youth in particular, is evident, and is derived from elements such as the diversity of prices as well as the ease of access of all the resources that can be reached through the internet. With the use of a descriptive appro...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7432361/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32722501 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17155370 |
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author | Marín-Díaz, Verónica Muñoz-González, Juan Manuel Sampedro-Requena, Begoña-Esther |
author_facet | Marín-Díaz, Verónica Muñoz-González, Juan Manuel Sampedro-Requena, Begoña-Esther |
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description | The presence of smartphones in the lives of the population in general, and of youth in particular, is evident, and is derived from elements such as the diversity of prices as well as the ease of access of all the resources that can be reached through the internet. With the use of a descriptive approach using a quantitative poll, the objective of the present study was to discover the opinions of university students in Spain and Colombia about smartphone use, as well as the consequences of its use, and if this use could derive into so-called problematic smartphone use (PSU). For gathering the information, the Mobile Phone Problematic Use Scale (MPPUSA) was utilized, with a sample size n = 4009. The main result reached was that the model obtained is structured around six factors that determined the elements in light of PSU. The initial conclusion found was that the model applied can be utilized with Colombian students, with young Spanish women and students in the macro area of Social Sciences, the ones who had problematic behavior with the devices, as compared to the Health Sciences students who did not have it. |
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spelling | pubmed-74323612020-08-24 Problematic Relationships with Smartphones of Spanish and Colombian University Students Marín-Díaz, Verónica Muñoz-González, Juan Manuel Sampedro-Requena, Begoña-Esther Int J Environ Res Public Health Article The presence of smartphones in the lives of the population in general, and of youth in particular, is evident, and is derived from elements such as the diversity of prices as well as the ease of access of all the resources that can be reached through the internet. With the use of a descriptive approach using a quantitative poll, the objective of the present study was to discover the opinions of university students in Spain and Colombia about smartphone use, as well as the consequences of its use, and if this use could derive into so-called problematic smartphone use (PSU). For gathering the information, the Mobile Phone Problematic Use Scale (MPPUSA) was utilized, with a sample size n = 4009. The main result reached was that the model obtained is structured around six factors that determined the elements in light of PSU. The initial conclusion found was that the model applied can be utilized with Colombian students, with young Spanish women and students in the macro area of Social Sciences, the ones who had problematic behavior with the devices, as compared to the Health Sciences students who did not have it. MDPI 2020-07-25 2020-08 /pmc/articles/PMC7432361/ /pubmed/32722501 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17155370 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Marín-Díaz, Verónica Muñoz-González, Juan Manuel Sampedro-Requena, Begoña-Esther Problematic Relationships with Smartphones of Spanish and Colombian University Students |
title | Problematic Relationships with Smartphones of Spanish and Colombian University Students |
title_full | Problematic Relationships with Smartphones of Spanish and Colombian University Students |
title_fullStr | Problematic Relationships with Smartphones of Spanish and Colombian University Students |
title_full_unstemmed | Problematic Relationships with Smartphones of Spanish and Colombian University Students |
title_short | Problematic Relationships with Smartphones of Spanish and Colombian University Students |
title_sort | problematic relationships with smartphones of spanish and colombian university students |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7432361/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32722501 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17155370 |
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