title: Problematic mobile phone use and big-five personality domains.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Although a mobile phone is useful and attractive as a tool for communication and interpersonal interaction, there exists the risk of its problematic or addictive use.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  This study aims to investigate the correlation between the big-five personality domains and problematic mobile phone use.
  
  
  METHODS
  The Mobile Phone Problem Usage Scale and the NEO Five-Factor Inventory (NEO-FFI) were employed in this study. Survey data were gathered from 504 university students for multiple regression analysis.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Problematic mobile phone use is a function of gender, extraversion, neuroticism, openness-to-experience; however, it is not a function of agreeableness or conscientiousness.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The measurement of these predictors would enable the screening of and intervening in the potentially problematic behaviors of mobile phone users.
authors: Department of Human and Information Science, Tokai University, Tokyo, Japan.
authors: Motoharu
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authors: Takao
keywords: Addictive behavior; big five personality domains; cellular phone; communication; education personality; intervention; mobile phone; predictor