A Study of Mobile-Phone Addiction,Personality Trait, Self-Efficacy, Positive Effects and Negative Impacts

• Main Authors: TIAN, RUI-YUN, 田瑞芸
• Other Authors: LEE, WAITING
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2017
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/92691036880721112785

碩士 === 國立聯合大學 === 資訊與社會研究所 === 105 === When “Mobile Only” becomes the new standard in the mobile-digital era, what then becomes the relationship between men and mobile devices? Is “mobile-phone addiction” the new social trend or the new social issue? Psychologists often labelled those heavy mobile users as “highly addicted”, suggesting that all the negative effects (depression and anxiety) are the cause of heavy mobile phone usage; forming a common diagnostic for all the likes (similar to “internet addiction” defined by DSM-5). How should “mobile-phone addiction” trend then be interpreted? How should over-usage and addiction be defined? What are the consequences related to work, family and school from mobile phone dependence? Do the negative consequences have a direct relationship to such actions? What’s the authenticity of the claims made towards such addictions? Different from the claims of mainstream clinical trials, this research will attempt to make statement from the perspective of the users, using data from Taiwanese mobile users’ usage on high frequency Mobile-Apps. This research will investigate users’ usage time via method of online-survey, and then compare the personality trait and self-efficacy of those who are “mobile-phone addiction”. The research will conduct cross-correlation analysis to verify whether personality trait or self-efficacy is related to heavy-phone usage. Moreover, to clarify the relevance of each factors and the actual consequences of “mobile-phone addiction”. This research assumes that effect of using mobile device to users is not affected by single negative impact. It will attempt to prove positive effects to users. The claims of mainstream psychology on “mobile-phone addiction” are incomplete and making such claims on partial information. As it neglected to address the possibility of positive effects that could improve self-efficiency from usage of mobile device, which in turn should mitigates the negative psychology effect. In summary, the usage of mobile phones could affect the users’ social relationships, but does not necessarily have direct negative relationship.