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Authors: Bobby Swar 1 and Tahir Hameed 2

Affiliations: 1 Concordia University of Edmonton, Canada ; 2 SolBridge International School of Business, Korea, Republic of

Keyword(s): Basic Psychological Need Satisfaction, Fear of Missing out, Social Media Engagement, Smartphone Addiction, Smartphone Distraction, Self-Help Intervention.

Related Ontology Subjects/Areas/Topics: Biomedical Engineering ; Distributed and Mobile Software Systems ; Health Engineering and Technology Applications ; Health Information Systems ; Mobile Technologies ; Mobile Technologies for Healthcare Applications ; Neural Rehabilitation ; Neurotechnology, Electronics and Informatics ; Software Engineering

Abstract: Smartphones offer high mobility and internet connectivity at the same time which has led to a substantial increase in the number of active social media users on the move, especially the ‘Millennials’. The excessive use of smartphone has been linked with several issues including mental well-being. Recently, different mobile applications have emerged to help users track their excessive use of smartphones and protect them from potential risks to mental health. This paper uses self-determination theory to examine the moderating role of such mobile applications (or self-help interventions) on inter-relationships between social media engagement, smartphone addiction and smartphone distractions. Survey responses from 284 college students reveal that mobile applications could prove to be quite effective self-help interventions that can help the young people in self-regulating their smartphone use. These results have substantial implications for designing effective mobile app-based intervent ions to save young people from potential risks to their mental health, productivity, and safety in performing their daily tasks. Future research directions have also been pointed out. (More)

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Swar, B. and Hameed, T. (2017). Fear of Missing out, Social Media Engagement, Smartphone Addiction and Distraction: Moderating Role of Self-Help Mobile Apps-based Interventions in the Youth. In Proceedings of the 10th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies (BIOSTEC 2017) - HEALTHINF; ISBN 978-989-758-213-4; ISSN 2184-4305, SciTePress, pages 139-146. DOI: 10.5220/0006166501390146

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title={Fear of Missing out, Social Media Engagement, Smartphone Addiction and Distraction: Moderating Role of Self-Help Mobile Apps-based Interventions in the Youth},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 10th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies (BIOSTEC 2017) - HEALTHINF},
year={2017},
pages={139-146},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006166501390146},
isbn={978-989-758-213-4},
issn={2184-4305},
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TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 10th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies (BIOSTEC 2017) - HEALTHINF
TI - Fear of Missing out, Social Media Engagement, Smartphone Addiction and Distraction: Moderating Role of Self-Help Mobile Apps-based Interventions in the Youth
SN - 978-989-758-213-4
IS - 2184-4305
AU - Swar, B.
AU - Hameed, T.
PY - 2017
SP - 139
EP - 146
DO - 10.5220/0006166501390146
PB - SciTePress