Abstract
Nowadays, the serious situation that affects the entire world goes beyond the social, cultural, economic problems and other conflicts that occur day by day. These were left aside to move to a global alert; we refer to the pandemic crisis that all the nations of the world are facing. Confinement forced people all over the world to stay at home; therefore, communications through electronic devices became very necessary. This study does not seek to analyze the pandemic crisis; its purpose is to analyze the use that students give to their mobile phone, to determine if this has generated addiction, in addition to identifying if use differs in men and in women. Participants were 184 high school students enrolled in a public sector institution in the Port of Veracruz, Mexico. To obtain the data, the SAS-CV test was used. This contains questions related to the profile of the respondent and 10 items in Likert format. It was distributed via electronic devices for their response. The data were statistically analyzed using polychoric correlation matrices and factor analysis with component extraction. The main findings demonstrate the obtaining of three components: physiological, dependence and distraction, which account for 68% of the total variance, and it was also shown that there are no differences by gender.
Highlights
Buying a mobile phone could seem harmless up to a certain point, since we have been convinced that it is a tool used by the individual to communicate with the surrounding society; how much has this tool become an essential need in daily life? Does constant use influence behavior? Does it cause addiction? the purpose of this study is to determine if high-school students are addicted to mobile phones and if this addiction differs in relation to gender
The main findings demonstrate the obtaining of three components: physiological, dependence and distraction, which account for 68% of the total variance, and it was shown that there are no differences by gender
The aim of the study was focused on determining if high-school students presented mobile phone addiction and if this addiction differs in relation to gender, the results on this regard were: in the first place, the instrument of mobile addiction designed by Kwon et al (2013) that was used in this research showed an acceptable internal consistency (α= 0.781), while the polychoric correlation matrix showed an acceptable correlation between the studied variables, which were in the range of 0.103 to 0.879 and all of them were positive, proving it is not an identity matrix and it does not present multicollinearity problems
Summary
Buying a mobile phone could seem harmless up to a certain point, since we have been convinced that it is a tool used by the individual to communicate with the surrounding society; how much has this tool become an essential need in daily life? Does constant use influence behavior? Does it cause addiction? the purpose of this study is to determine if high-school students are addicted to mobile phones and if this addiction differs in relation to gender. Having a mobile phone has allowed teenagers to shape an identity as part of a social group, where they have the possibility of creating a unique and exclusive language as part of said group of people. This coincides with the arguments of other similar studies (Mante & Piris, 2002; Protegeles, 2005). In the chronological analysis of mobile phones made by Ling (2002), it is stated that in the year 1997 its use was oriented mainly to work matters and more men than women where in possession of a mobile phone. Before 2001, people of different ages owned a mobile phone, being women more prone to buy mobile phones than men; in May 2001 there was an increase in the ownership of mobile phones by men, surpassing women
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