ABSTRACT. We draw on a substantial body of theoretical and empirical research on smartphone addiction, and to explore this, we inspected, used, and replicated survey data from Deloitte, Forrester, Insights West & iamota, KDM Engineering, MarketingCharts, Pew Research Center, Statista, and YouGov, performing analyses and making estimates regarding the relationship between problematic smartphone use, social anxiety symptom severity, and technology-related behaviors and attitudes. Structural equation modeling was used to analyze the data and test the proposed conceptual model.

Keywords: problematic smartphone use; social anxiety; behavior; attitude; technology

How to cite: Taylor, P., Kral, P., Vrbka, J., and Gregova, E. (2020). “Problematic Smartphone Use, Social Anxiety Symptom Severity, and Technology-related Behaviors and Attitudes,” Analysis and Metaphysics 19: 73–79. doi:10.22381/AM1920208

Received 26 July 2020 • Received in revised form 19 September 2020
Accepted 22 September 2020 • Available online 1 October 2020