Abstract
The Institute of Social Sciences of the CSPS of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Košice is an interdisciplinary workplace of social sciences and humanities with a primary research focus on the area of Central Europe in the field of social psychology, sociology and history.
Highlights
There is no doubt about the biggest invention of modern times
The research group of the questionnaire study comprised of 988 female university undergraduates, ages ranging between 19 and 56 (M = 22.80; SD = 5.31; IQR = 3). 537 students were affiliated to Ostrava University (54.1 %), 176 students to Palacky University in Olomouc (17.7 %) and the rest to Veterinary University in Brno (N = 97)
The analysis comprised the use of descriptive statistics, reliability analysis, Pearson’s correlation and linear regression
Summary
There is no doubt about the biggest invention of modern times. Due to its attractiveness and convenience, it is used by most people in developed as well as developing countries (Takao et al, 2009). We are talking about a relatively new technical achievement, the smartphone. Before these mobile devices could justify their name, they had to go through a technical revolution, which contributed to the transformation of mobile device ecosystems into today’s user-friendly and attractive smartphones (Islam-Want, 2014). On the world market we can encounter operational systems iOS, Android, Symbian, Microsoft Windows, RIM or BlackBerry. Two of these platforms are outstanding thanks to their different approach and popularity. These are the operational systems iOS from Apple and the Android OS from Google (Goadrich–Rogers,2011). The smartphones with the operational system Android alone recorded a 40 % increase in usage
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