Recorded behavior as a valuable resource for diagnostics in mobile phone addiction: evidence from psychoinformatics
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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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One longitudinal study showed that total perceived usage time reported on questionnaires was higher than actual registered data, indicating a clear underestimation of usage.
“One such study showed that the total perceived usage time reported on the questionnaires was higher than the actual registered data (3, 23, 114, 115), meaning that the self-perception of the time dedicated to the content reported in the questionnaires was less than the actual time registered by the application, indicating a clear underestimation of usage (115).”
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Many developers of social media apps and Freemium games aim to achieve a person being so immersed that he or she forgets time and space while using a platform or app.
“It is well known that flow goes along with a feeling of time distortion and this is exactly what many developers of social media apps and Freemium games aim to achieve—a person being so immersed that he or she is forgetting about time and space while using a platform or app (cf., [30,49,50]).”
From Addictive Features of Social Media/Messenger Platforms and Freemium Games against the Background of Psychological and Economic Theories (2019) · cites this paper as [49]
The problems persons have in assessing their smartphone consumption are probably due to time distortions.
“and this is probably due to time distortions [49,101].”
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Persons have problems in assessing their smartphone consumption.
“it has been demonstrated that persons have problems in assessing their smartphone consumption”
From Addictive Features of Social Media/Messenger Platforms and Freemium Games against the Background of Psychological and Economic Theories (2019) · cites this paper as [49]
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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
- ORCID
- Venue
- Behavioral Sciences
- Publisher
- MDPI AG
- Published
- 2015-10-19
- Volume
- 5
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 434-442
- ISSN
- 2076-328X (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC4695771
- 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
- Open access
- gold
- dx.doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- 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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