Abstract
The study examined dependency, satisfaction, and psychosocial characteristics as correlates of cell phone use by library and information science (LIS) undergraduate students. Using survey, 253 undergraduates represent the sample for the study. Five research questions were developed and answered. The results of the psychosocial characteristics' correlation with the cell phone use reveal that self-efficacy had the highest correlation with the cell phones use (r = 0.74), followed by self-esteem (r = 0.69), entertainment (r = 0.37), and social interaction (r = 0.33). Anxiety had the lowest correlation (r = 0.23), but still correlates positively with LIS students' cell phones use. Self-efficacy contributed most to the prediction of LIS students' cell phone use (Beta value =.299), followed in declining order of strength by dependency (Beta = .292), self-esteem (Beta =.182), satisfaction (Beta =.177), social interaction (Beta = .111), and entertainment (Beta = .106).
Highlights
The last few years have witnessed a dramatic increase in the use of cell phones
To achieve the stated objectives, the following research questions will be answered by the study: 1. What correlation exists between cell phone use, dependency, satisfaction and psychosocial characteristics of library and information science (LIS) undergraduate students?
The results show that cell phone dependency had the highest correlation with cell phone use (r = 0.77)
Summary
In recent times there seems to have been a transformation of the cell phone from a status symbol to a necessity because of the countless perks that a mobile phone provides like personal diary, email dispatcher, calculator, video game player, camera and music player (North, Johnston, & Ophoff, 2014; Comulada, Swendeman, & Ramanathan, 2018).). Ezemenaka goes further to report that technologic addictions (a subset of behavioral addictions) are no different from substance addictions in that users get some kind of reward from cell phone use, resulting in pleasure. When your phone isn’t ringing, your brain sometimes tricks you into thinking that it is a phenomenon that has been dubbed phantom ringing
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