Smartphone Addictions: A Review of Themes, Theories and Future Research Directions

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dc.contributor.authorNyamadi, Makafui
dc.contributor.authorBoateng, Richard
dc.contributor.authorAsamenu, Immaculate
dc.date.accessioned2020-01-04T08:27:01Z
dc.date.available2020-01-04T08:27:01Z
dc.date.issued2020-01-07
dc.description.abstractThis research work presents a literature review on "Smartphone Addiction" (SA). The papers used for this review were retrieved from AIS (All Repositories), Elsevier, Wiley Online, Tailor and Francis and JSTOR databases using the phrase "Smartphone Addiction". In all, 13 AIS top conferences and 31 peer-reviewed journals searched from 2007 to July 2018 returned 1572 papers. This paper details the findings based on the literature assessment of 128 publications. In terms of context and geographical gaps, Asia leads the chart with 39 articles representing 30.5percent and Africa recorded only 1 paper used for this work. Online data collection with global focus had 37 articles representing 28.9percent and quantitative methodology was adopted by 91 articles representing 71.1percent. SA research was more at the micro and meso levels. This review has demonstrated that literature offers several perspectives on SA but failed to establish a causal theory or a model that fully accounted for urge and craving phenomena from an IS design principle perspective to mitigate SA. Also, smartphones are devices (artifacts) that enable users to access and become addicted to applications such as video games, SNSs, emails, etc. Future research should, therefore, focus more on addictive activities and applications on these devices.
dc.format.extent10 pages
dc.identifier.doi10.24251/HICSS.2020.746
dc.identifier.isbn978-0-9981331-3-3
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10125/64488
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofProceedings of the 53rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectThe Dark Side of Information Technology Use
dc.subjectaddiction
dc.subjectliterature review
dc.subjectsmartphone
dc.titleSmartphone Addictions: A Review of Themes, Theories and Future Research Directions
dc.typeConference Paper
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