Abstract
With the quickly rising popularity of smartphone among adolescents over the past decade, studies have begun to investigate the relationship between smartphone addiction and Eysenck's personality traits. Despite numerous studies on this topic, however, findings have been mixed and there is a lack of consensus regarding this relationship. Thus, this meta-analysis aimed to explore the relationship between smartphone addiction and Eysenck's personality traits in Chinese adolescents, as well as its possible moderators. Through literature search and screening, 33 studies were included, comprising 79 independent effect sizes with a total of 17, 737 subjects. A random effects model was selected, and it was found that smartphone addiction was positively associated with psychoticism (r = 0.16, p < 0.001) and neuroticism (r = 0.32, p < 0.001), but not significantly associated with extroversion (r = −0.06, p = 0.079). The moderating effect test showed that sex and year of study publication had significant influences on the relationship between smartphone addiction and psychoticism, and the year of study publication had a significant influence on the relationship between smartphone addiction and neuroticism. This study is the first meta-analysis on the relationship between smartphone addiction and Eysenck's personality traits among adolescents in China, and the results have helped to clarify the controversy of previous studies regarding this relationship.
Highlights
According to the 47th Statistical Report on Internet Development released by the China Internet Network Information Center (2021), the number of Chinese mobile Internet users by the end of April 2021 amounted to 940 million
The current meta-analysis aimed to determine the relationship between smartphone addiction and Eysenck’s personality traits in Chinese adolescents and evaluate possible moderators of this relationship
The results show that smartphone addiction has a positive association with both psychoticism and neuroticism, but no association with extraversion
Summary
According to the 47th Statistical Report on Internet Development released by the China Internet Network Information Center (2021), the number of Chinese mobile Internet users by the end of April 2021 amounted to 940 million. Mobile netizens at this time accounted for 99.2% of the total netizen population, and 10–20 year olds accounted for 20.3%. The increasing amount of time adolescents spend using smartphones can have many negative physical and mental impacts, such as sleep problems, Smartphone Addiction and Personality Traits depression, and poor school performance (Lopez-Fernandez et al, 2014; Gao et al, 2020). Smartphone addiction has attracted increasing attention from both government and scholars
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