RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article
T1 What colour are you? Smartphone addiction traffic lights and user profiles
A1 San Martín Gutiérrez, Sonia
A1 Jiménez Torres, Nadia Huitzilin
K1 Smartphone addiction
K1 Compulsive app downloading
K1 Phubbing
K1 Family harmony
K1 Boredom proneness
K1 Profiles
K1 Cluster
K1 Consumidores-Conducta
K1 Consumer behavior
K1 Smartphones
AB Purpose: The key concern nowadays is smartphone addiction and user profiles. Following the risk and protective factors framework, the authors aim to characterize smartphone users according to two levels: (1) individual: referred to the use (i.e. boredom proneness, compulsive app downloading smartphone addiction) and (2) microsystem: referred to family and peers (i.e. family harmony and phubbing). Besides, the authors will derive useful managerial implications and strategies.Design/methodology/approach: First, an extensive literature revision and in-depth interviews with experts were employed to identify the addiction-related variables at the individual and microsystem level. Second, information was collected from a sample of 275 Spanish smartphone users, and a K-means clustering algorithm was employed to classify smartphone users.Findings: The proposed traffic lights schema identifies three users’ profiles (red, yellow and green) regarding their smartphone addiction and considering individual and microsystem critical variables.Originality/value: This study proposes a practical and pioneer traffic lights schema to classify smartphone users and facilitate each cluster's strategies development.
PB Emerald
SN 2444-8451
YR 2023
FD 2023-05
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10259/9694
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10259/9694
LA eng
NO The authors are grateful to funding by the European Comission, under an Erasmus + project with reference 2019-1-ES01-KA201-064250.
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Burgos
RD 03-feb-2025