The Relationship between Smartphone Addiction and Identity Development among Adolescents

Smartphone addiction has negative consequences on adolescents. The main developmental task of adolescence is the formation ego-identity. Little awareness role smartphone in ego-identity during adolescence. study intends to examine relationship between and dimensions identity development. For this purpose, effects were analysed using path analysis. sample consisted 403 high school students aged 13 18 years. Dimensions Identity Development Scale Addiction Short Form used as data gathering instruments. As a result analysis, it was determined that negatively predicted identification commitment, commitment making exploration breadth from In addition, found positively ruminative exploration. With model presented study, connection development concluded adolescents' plays an important results obtained discussed within framework literature. Suggestions made researchers practitioners.