The role of cognitive emotion regulation strategies on problematic smartphone use: comparison between problematic and non-problematic adolescent users.
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Prior work has suggested that individuals with deficits in emotion regulation skills are prone to compulsive behaviour and to following maladaptive coping strategies, such as smartphone overuse, to manage negative moods. Adolescence is a vulnerable developmental stage for deficits in emotion regulation, and these are linked to excessive smartphone use. The present study is the first to examine the links between the use of specific cognitive emotion regulation (CER) strategies and problematic smartphone use in a sample of adolescents. A total of 845 Spanish adolescents (455 females) completed the Spanish versions of the Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire and the Smartphone Addiction Scale, along with a socio-demographic survey. The adolescents were divided into two groups: Non-problematic smartphone users (n = 491, 58.1%) and problematic smartphone users (n = 354, 41.9%). Significant group differences were found, with the problematic users reporting significantly higher scores for all maladaptive CER strategies, including higher self-blame, rumination, blaming of others and catastrophising. The results from logistic regression analyses show that rumination, catastrophising and blaming of others were the most important variables for distinguishing between the two groups, along with gender and parental control outside the home. In summary, these findings suggest the importance of specific maladaptive CER strategies in problematic smartphone use and provide insight for relevant targets for intervention designs.
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Psychological well-being can be enhanced by the use of adaptive emotion regulation strategies.
“A substantial amount of research findings point to the fact that psychological well-being can be enhanced by the use of adaptive emotion regulation strategies (Extremera et al., 2019).”
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Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredExcessive smartphone use is associated with difficulties in cognitive-emotion regulation.
“Excessive smartphone use is associated with difficulties in cognitive-emotion regulation, impulsivity, impaired cognitive function, addiction to social networking, shyness and low self-esteem.”
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- Authors
- Extremera, N., Quintana-Orts, C., Sánchez-Álvarez, N., & Rey, L.
- Affiliations
- Universidad de Málaga (ES)
- Department of Social, Evolutionary and Educational Psychology, University of Huelva, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Av. Fuerzas Armadas, 21007 Huelva, Spain
- Faculty of Psychology, University of Málaga, Campus de Teatinos s/n, 29071 Málaga, Spain
- Corresponding author
- Extremera, Natalio
- Venue
- International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
- Publisher
- MDPI AG
- Published
- 2019-08-28
- Volume
- 16
- Issue
- 17
- Pages
- 3142
- ISSN
- 1660-4601 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC6747355
- OpenAlex
- W2970098597
- Cited by
- 102
- References
- 51
- Citations by year
- 2026: 18 · 2025: 16 · 2024: 9 · 2023: 23 · 2022: 10 · 2021: 17 · 2020: 9
- FWCI
- 18.11
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- dx.doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- RISalud Institutional Health Repository of Andalucía (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva (Universidad de Huelva) (submittedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion)
- Hispana (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva (Universidad de Huelva) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Funders
- University of Málaga (PPIT.UMA.B1.2017/23)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Impact of Technology on Adolescents
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology
- Social Sciences › Education › Child Development and Digital Technology
- Keywords
- cognitive emotion regulation, smartphone addiction, adolescents, rumination, catastrophizing, self-blame, blaming others, maladaptive coping, parental control, gender differences
- MeSH terms
- Smartphone, Emotional Regulation, Adaptation, Psychological, Adolescent, Cognition, Female, Humans, Male, Surveys and Questionnaires, Behavior, Addictive
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