Dysfunctional Mobile Phone Use among Adolescents and Parental Control

  • Ewa Krzyżak-Szymańska The Jerzy Kukuczka Academy of Physical Education in Katowice
Keywords: technological addictions; problematic mobile phone use; parental control

Abstract

The dynamic expansion of digital technologies and their more common using in a daily life cause that researchers are thinking of their influence on human development and social functioning. The mobile phone (smartphone) has a special place among these devices which is now used not only for communicational aims but also as a mobile command centre. That is why researchers are trying to explain when mobile phone use becoming dysfunctional and what are the reasons of this state. One of the enviromental factor which have an impact on a addiction development is a parental control made by a mother and a father in the range of mobile phone using by a child. The article presents the researches results of disfunctional mobile phone using by youth, in the context of parental control realised by attendants in the area of new media using. 2657 results of students in the age 12-19 from middle and upper-secondary schools from the silesian voivodeship were analysed. The people choice to the research sample was random- multi-layered. In studies used a Mobile Phone Problem Use Scale for Adolescents (MPPUSA) and a authorial questionnaire. Certified the statistically significiant connection (although weak) between dysfunctional mobile phone using level and realised parental control in the terms of a device use.

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Published
2019-12-31
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Articles