Predictors of smartphone addiction and its effect on quality of life: a cross-sectional study among the young adults in Bangladesh.

IF 3.2 Q1 HEALTH CARE SCIENCES & SERVICES Frontiers in digital health Pub Date : 2025-02-12 eCollection Date: 2025-01-01 DOI:10.3389/fdgth.2025.1351955

Zubair Ahmed Ratan, Anne-Maree Parrish, Mohammad Saud Alotaibi, Hassan Hosseinzadeh

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The enigma of smartphone addiction (SA) has plagued academics for the last decade, now scholars believed this behaviour might affect physical and mental wellbeing. SA has become a complex problem, yet to date, there is limited research investigating the predictors of SA and its effect on "health-related quality of life (HRQoL)". This study aimed to address this gap. The data was gathered from a convenience sample of 440 young adults completed between July 2021 and February 2022 through online survey in Bangladesh. On Logistic regression, after controlling for socio-demographic variables; friend support, process, social and compulsive usage were determined as significant predictors of SA. Those who were smartphone addicted were more presumably to have a lower quality of life. This study has significant implications for designing prevention pro-grams and policy development in relation to predictors of SA and its effect on HRQoL.

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