Impact of Impulsiveness on Mobile Phone Addiction

Technology revolutions and inventions have provided the world with various inventions for various purposes. Each and every invention has brought comforts additionally as well as some threatening effects with it. Same is in the case with mobile phone technology. Addictive mobile phone use can be regarded as an impulse control disorder that does not involve an intoxicant and is similar to the addictive use of various technologies, such as the internet. Since its appearance in the psychiatric and clinical psychology literature, problematic use of the Mobile phone has been viewed as a disorder and conceptualized as an addictive behavior (Billieux, 2012). Therefore it is an important area to be explored. The current investigation was designed to study the impact of Impulsiveness on Mobile phone addiction and to compare Mobile phone addiction and Impulsiveness among adolescent males and females. For this purpose Impulsiveness scale (Barratt, 1995) and Mobile phone addiction scale (Velayudhan & Srividya, 2012) were administered to a sample of 100 adolescents (50 males & 50 females) in the age range of 14-19 years. The sample was collected from the private schools of Chandigarh. Pearson Product Moment Correlation method was used for statistical analysis of the results in order to determine the impact of impulsiveness on mobile phone addiction and t-test was used to compare mobile phone addiction and impulsiveness among adolescent males and females. Impulsiveness has been positively correlated to mobile phone addiction.