Bases psicologicas de la adiccion al "smart-phone

Abstract

ABSTRACT This thesis aims to study some of the psychosocial mechanisms that underlie the use of the Smartphone. To do this, a smartphone addiction questionnaire has been created. We have based ourselves on the existing bibliography, focus group and in-depth interviews. Once developed, the questionnaire was completed by a sample of university subjects and supported in their reliability values by means of Cronbach's statistical tests and test-retest. We have also made an attempt at concurrent validity analyzing the correlations with the academic results and analyzing the gender differences.Through factorial analysis, we have found an interpretive structure of four consumption factors, which we have called: envelopes, socialized, virtualized and stressed. These patterns are defined by different characteristics depending on variables such as: the greater or lesser degree of anxiety, the need to respond urgently, etc. Later, this questionnaire was again applied to another different sample of university students together with two other questionnaires: the Big-Five of Caprara, G. V et al. and Gordon's Interpersonal Values Questionnaire.A structure of four factors was also found, both by factor analysis of the results and by analysis of latent classes.This structure seems to respond to two major variables: neuroticism, extracted from the Big-Five questionnaire and leadership, extracted from the Interpersonal Values questionnaire. By means of these two variables, in its "positive" and "negative" poles, the structure could be interpreted in four factors of addiction to the Smartphone explained above.