Proposed Diagnostic Criteria for Smartphone Addiction.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Global smartphone penetration has led to unprecedented addictive behaviors. The aims of this study are to develop diagnostic criteria of smartphone addiction and to examine the discriminative ability and the validity of the diagnostic criteria.

Methods

We developed twelve candidate criteria for characteristic symptoms of smartphone addiction and four criteria for functional impairment caused by excessive smartphone use. The participants consisted of 281 college students. Each participant was systematically assessed for smartphone-using behaviors by psychiatrist's structured diagnostic interview. The sensitivity, specificity, and diagnostic accuracy of the candidate symptom criteria were analyzed with reference to the psychiatrists' clinical global impression. The

SUBMITTER: Lin YH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5112893 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature