Nomophobia: Dependency on virtual environments or social phobia?

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Is smartphone addiction really an addiction?

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Negative consequences from heavy social networking in adolescents: The mediating role of fear of missing out

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Out of sight is not out of mind: The impact of restricting wireless mobile device use on anxiety levels among low, moderate and high users

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The extended iSelf: The impact of iPhone separation on cognition, emotion, and physiology

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Parent distraction with phones, reasons for use, and impacts on parenting and child outcomes: A review of the emerging research

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Motivational processes and dysfunctional mechanisms of social media use among adolescents: a qualitative focus group study

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Smartphone withdrawal creates stress: A moderated mediation model of nomophobia, social threat, and phone withdrawal context

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Smartphones and close relationships: the case for an evolutionary mismatch

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Problematic smartphone use: Investigating contemporary experiences using a convergent design

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Nomophobia: Is the Fear of Being without a Smartphone Associated with Problematic Use?

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Smartphone addictions and nomophobia among youth

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Are we addicted to our cell phones?

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Predictors of problematic smartphone use: an examination of the Integrative Pathways Model and the role of age, gender, impulsiveness, excessive reassurance seeking, extraversion, and depression

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Longitudinal relationships between nomophobia, addictive use of social media, and insomnia in adolescents

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Examination of smartphone dependence: Functionally and existentially dependent behavior on the smartphone

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The role of nomophobia and smartphone addiction in the lifestyle profiles of junior and senior high school students in the Philippines

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Increasing intolerance of uncertainty over time: the potential influence of increasing connectivity

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Latent-level relations between DSM-5 PTSD symptom clusters and problematic smartphone use

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Nuevas tecnologías - ¿ Nuevas patologías ? El smartphone y el fear of missing out

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Consciously Connected: The Role of Mindfulness for Mobile Phone Connectedness and Stress

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The Effect of Loneliness on Nomophobia: A Moderated Mediation Model

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Problematic use of social media in adolescents or excessive social gratification? The mediating role of nomophobia

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Excessive digital devices use as an intermediate variable between heterogeneous adverse childhood experiences and psychopathology in US adolescents: a latent class cross-sectional analysis

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