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Needing to Connect: The Effect of Self and Others on Young People’s Involvement with their Mobile Phones
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@MISC{Walsh_needingto,
author = {Shari P. Walsh and Katherine M. White and Ross Mcd Young},
title = {Needing to Connect: The Effect of Self and Others on Young People’s Involvement with their Mobile Phones},
year = {}
}
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Abstract
The present research was a preliminary examination of young Australians ’ mobile phone behaviour. The study explored the relationship between, and psychological predictors of, frequency of mobile phone use and mobile phone involvement conceptualised as people’s cognitive and behavioural interaction with their mobile phone. Participants were 946 Australian youth aged between 15 and 24 years. A descriptive measurement tool, the Mobile Phone Involvement Questionnaire (MPIQ), was developed. Self-identity and validation from others were explored as predictors of both types of mobile phone behaviour. A distinction was found between frequency of mobile phone use and mobile phone involvement. Only self-identity predicted frequency of use whereas both self-identity and validation from others predicted mobile phone involvement. These findings reveal the importance of distinguishing between frequency of use and people’s psychological relationship with their phone and that factors relating to one’s
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mobile phone young people involvement mobile phone involvement mobile phone use phone involvement psychological relationship mobile phone involvement questionnaire descriptive measurement tool behavioural interaction young australian mobile phone behaviour australian youth present research psychological predictor preliminary examination mobile phone behaviour
