Expert voices, youngsters, families and teachers profiling smartphone addiction among students
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https://doi.org/10.51302/tce.2023.5939Keywords:
addiction, behavior, teachers, education, students, families, experts, youngsters, smartphonesAbstract
Nowadays, smartphones are essential in everyday life due to the wide variety of functionalities. However, inappropriate use leads to addiction, especially affecting young students (men and women) and with relevant consequences in the educational sphere such as depression, low self-esteem and poorer academic performance. It is therefore important to identify the profile of the smartphone addict in order to establish potential warning signs. However, there are few recent studies that consider the profile of the mobile phone user for this type of addiction and they mostly do so using quantitative techniques and considering a single perspective. The aim of this exploratory paper is to fill this gap and profile the student perceived as a smartphone addict by considering four perspectives related to the educational field. For this purpose, qualitative research is carried out with individual in-depth interviews and group interviews with students and parents, and teachers and experts respectively from four countries. Through a content analysis, the data are interpreted and presented in five study blocks. The results show different nuances depending on the perspective adopted, with discrepancies or similarities emerging. For example, the students' perception of the time and frequency of use does not match the reality described by parents. The need to use it constantly derives from fear or discomfort at being disconnected from the virtual world, as experts and students agree. But all agents perceive that for the addict the mobile is indispensable and cannot live without it.
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Este trabajo se ha realizado al amparo del Proyecto Erasmus+ «Facing Youngsters' Mobile Addiction Through an Innovative Technological App (YOUNGMOB)» (2019-1-ES01-KA201-064250), financiado por la Unión Europea y gestionado por el Servicio Español para la Internacionalización de la Educación (SEPIE).
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