Risk of mobile phone addiction. Presentation of the results of international research conducted among Polish, Latvian and Lithuanian students
ENMobile technologies, especially mobile phones with the Internet access, increasingly become an indispensable tool used by young people. Year by year, the number of mobile phone owners and users use it not only for calling but also for sending text messages, using the Internet, taking pictures and finally for playing games. Using the mobile phone became so common and automatic, that more often we can talk about the abuse or technology addiction. The article presents the results of a research conducted among students in 2015 in 3 European countries: Poland, Lithuania and Latvia. 1048 students have been tested, including 690 women and 322 men over the age of 18. The aim was to characterize the mobile phone use by young people and to define the level of the risk of phonoholism. The study was carried out using a diagnostic survey method. The online surveys technique was applied with the use of Ankietka.pl portal. In addition, the study used questionnaire named Addiction to Mobile Phone Questionnaire (AMPQ) by A. Potembska and B. Pawłowska. The article describes the scale of mobile phone addiction in the studied group of students. It was agreed that 7.6% of the surveyed respondents exhibit the characteristics of addiction from the phone, 34.6% belong to a group of people in risk of addiction, and 57.7% use the device correctly. The highest percentage (8.9%) of phone abusers belongs to Lithuanian students, and the lowest is in Latvia- 4.5%. Among Polish students 8.6% of researched met the criteria of behavioral addiction.
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