Problematic Smartphone Use in Spanish and Italian University Students
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Título: | Problematic Smartphone Use in Spanish and Italian University Students |
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Autor/es: | Roig-Vila, Rosabel | Prendes Espinosa, M. Paz | Urrea-Solano, Mayra |
Grupo/s de investigación o GITE: | Grupo de Investigación Interdisciplinar en Docencia Universitaria - Educación y Tecnologías de la Información y Comunicación/Educación Inclusiva (GIDU-EDUTIC/IN) |
Centro, Departamento o Servicio: | Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Didáctica General y Didácticas Específicas |
Palabras clave: | Problematic smartphone use | University student | Nomophobia | Sustainable development | Cross-cultural study |
Área/s de conocimiento: | Didáctica y Organización Escolar |
Fecha de publicación: | 8-dic-2020 |
Editor: | MDPI |
Cita bibliográfica: | Roig-Vila R, Prendes-Espinosa P, Urrea-Solano M. Problematic Smartphone Use in Spanish and Italian University Students. Sustainability. 2020; 12(24):10255. https://doi.org/10.3390/su122410255 |
Resumen: | Sustainable education requires the proper usage of technological devices. Among these is the smartphone, which is used by millions of young people around the world in today’s society. The objective of this study was to understand the smartphone usage profile of Spanish and Italian university students. It also aimed to identify possible problematic uses, and the differences in smartphone use (or abuse) between the participating subjects. The study was descriptive and comparative, with the intentional sampling of N = 1412 subjects studying at the education faculties of the University of Alicante (UA) and the Suor Orsola Benincasa University (UNISOB). A previously-validated questionnaire with 27 items was employed during the 2019–20 academic year. The data was analysed using the SPSS 25 programme. Descriptive and inferential analyses were carried out. The results obtained after the analysis of the data indicated that, of the four possible user types—occasional, habitual, at risk, and problematic—more than half of the sample identified themselves as habitual users. It can be concluded that there are significant differences between the universities: the UA students exhibited more problematic use than the UNISOB students. It is therefore necessary to prepare training programmes that are designed to avert problematic behaviours related to smartphone use. |
Patrocinador/es: | This work was supported by the Program Redes-I3CE of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor’s Office for Quality and Innovation of the University of Alicante, under Grant 4676—Smartphones as a resource for initial teacher training. Mobile learning or addiction? Two of the authors belong to the GIDU-EDUTIC/IN Research Group of the University of Alicante (VIGROB-330), and one author belongs to the GITE Research Group of the University of Murcia. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10045/111291 |
ISSN: | 2071-1050 |
DOI: | 10.3390/su122410255 |
Idioma: | eng |
Tipo: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Derechos: | © 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/). |
Revisión científica: | si |
Versión del editor: | https://doi.org/10.3390/su122410255 |
Aparece en las colecciones: | INV - GIDU-EDUTIC/IN - Artículos de Revistas |
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