Mobile phone dependency and its impacts on adolescents’ social and academic behaviors

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Highlights:

• The impacts of mobile phone dependency on social and academic behaviors in adolescents were examined.

• Mobile phone dependency negatively predicted attention and positively predicted depression.

• Mobile phone dependency affected social relationships with friends and academic achievement.

• The mediating roles of relationships with friends were found between mobile phone dependency and the academic achievement.

摘要

•The impacts of mobile phone dependency on social and academic behaviors in adolescents were examined.•Mobile phone dependency negatively predicted attention and positively predicted depression.•Mobile phone dependency affected social relationships with friends and academic achievement.•The mediating roles of relationships with friends were found between mobile phone dependency and the academic achievement.

论文关键词:Mobile phone dependency,Adolescents,Attention,Depression,Academic achievement

论文评审过程:Received 22 January 2016, Revised 9 May 2016, Accepted 11 May 2016, Available online 25 May 2016, Version of Record 25 May 2016.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2016.05.026