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Recorded behavior as a valuable resource for diagnostics in mobile phone addiction: evidence from psychoinformatics

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Montag, Christian, Błaszkiewicz, Konrad, Lachmann, Bernd, Sariyska, Rayna, Andone, Ionut, Trendafilov, Boris, Markowetz, Alexander·2015·Behavioral Sciences

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Psychologists and psychiatrists commonly rely on self-reports or interviews to diagnose or treat behavioral addictions. The present study introduces a novel source of data: recordings of the actual problem behavior under investigation. A total of N = 58 participants were asked to fill in a questionnaire measuring problematic mobile phone behavior featuring several questions on weekly phone usage. After filling in the questionnaire, all participants received an application to be installed on their smartphones, which recorded their phone usage for five weeks. The analyses revealed that weekly phone usage in hours was overestimated; in contrast, numbers of call and text message related variables were underestimated. Importantly, several associations between actual usage and being addicted to mobile phones could be derived exclusively from the recorded behavior, but not from self-report variables. The study demonstrates the potential benefit to include methods of psychoinformatics in the diagnosis and treatment of problematic mobile phone use.

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Authors
Montag, C., Błaszkiewicz, K., Lachmann, B., Sariyska, R., Andone, I., Trendafilov, B., & Markowetz, A.
Affiliations
  • Universität Ulm (DE)
  • University of Bonn (DE)
Corresponding author
Montag, Christian
Venue
Behavioral Sciences
Publisher
MDPI AG
Published
2015-10-19
Volume
5
Issue
4
Pages
434-442
ISSN
2076-328X (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2148445422
Cited by
122
References
19
Citations by year
2026: 2 · 2025: 6 · 2024: 6 · 2023: 11 · 2022: 14 · 2021: 13 · 2020: 17 · 2019: 22 · 2018: 10 · 2017: 15 · 2016: 6
FWCI
34.28
Type
journal article
Language
en
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  • Behavioral Sciences (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
Funders
DFG (MO 2363/2-1, MO 2363/3-1)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Impact of Technology on Adolescents
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Applied Psychology › Digital Mental Health Interventions
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology
Keywords
mobile phone addiction, problematic mobile phone use, behavioral addiction, addiction diagnosis

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