Background: Less than 20% of people with addictions have access to adequate treatment. Mobile health could improve care. No systematic review evaluates effectiveness mobile applications for addiction. Objectives: First aim was describe controlled trials evaluating the smartphone targeting substance use disorders and addictive behaviors. Secondly, we aimed understand how application produced cha...

Currently, mobile phones are widely used worldwide. Thus, phubbing rapidly became a common phenomenon in our social life. Phubbing is considered by the literature as new form of technology-related addiction that may undermine interpersonal relationships and mental health. Our study contributed to exploring phubbers’ emotional activation no other work has investigated it so far. Indeed, research...

      Instagram is the fastest growing social network site globally. Instagram is an online, mobile phone photo-sharing, video-sharing, and social network service that enables its users to take pictures and videos, and then share them on other platforms. The purpose of this study is to distinguish the student’s Instagram social network addiction by personality, alexithymia and attachment styles...

Usage time is a major criterion to determine whether a user is addicted to their smartphone, and many smartphone apps aiming to decrease smartphone addiction have been developed with this criterion in mind. However, this rule of thumb is based on an incorrect assumption that develops from studies on internet addiction. Our study tests how applicable this rule truly is, through correlation and d...