Categorical Characteristics and Risk Factors of Adolescents at High Risk for Smartphone Addiction
To explore the categorical characteristics of smartphone-addicted adolescents and their personal and family influences,1,490 middle school students were surveyed with a questionnaire method,and data were analyzed with latent profiles and polynomial logistic regression. The results of the study show that the whole sample could be divided into high ( 21%) and low addiction risk groups ( 79%),and the scores of the high addiction risk group were higher than those of the low addiction risk group on the four dimensions of loss of control,withdrawal,avoidance and inefficacy,with the scores on the inefficacy and avoidance dimensions being higher than those on the loss of control and withdrawal dimensions. The family factors of the age of initiation of mobile phone use,the amount of time that the parents allowed for the use of mobile phones other than for study,the relationship between adolescents and their mothers,and the personal factors of academic pressure and self-controlmay be the risk factors for mobile phone addiction among adolescents. Intervention should focus on these factors.