Personality and Smartphone Addiction in Romania's Digital Age: The Mediating Role of Professional Status and the Moderating Effect of Adaptive Coping.

ABSTRACT: In this research, we aimed to evaluate the relationship between the main dimensions of personality (Extraversion, Maturity, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, and Self-actualization) and mobile phone addiction, both directly and mediated by the professional context (professional status), and moderated by adaptive cognitive-emotional coping strategies. The participants, adult Romanian citizens, completed measures of personality-Big Five ABCD-M, a mobile phone addiction questionnaire, and the CERQ for adaptive coping strategies. They also responded to a question about current professional status (employed, student, etc.). Data were analyzed using Jamovi, and the findings were somewhat unexpected, though it aligned with the existing literature. Maturity emerged as a consistent inverse predicto

SUBMITTER: Litan DE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12295588 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature