Andrew Lefler

Mrs. Thomas
3/30/2016
UWRT 1102 004
Relationships among smartphone addiction, stress, academic performance,
and satisfaction with life
Samaha, Maya, and Nazir S. Hawi. "Relationships Among Smartphone
Addiction, Stress, Academic Performance, and Satisfaction with Life."
Computers in Human Behavior. 57 (2016): 321-325. Print.

This piece was written by Maya Samaha and Hawi Nazir who work with
the Computer Science department at Notre Dame University. The author duo
focus on the usage of smartphones among young people and how their lives

are effected through conducting a survey. Described in the article is how

smartphones have now replaced modern society computers and other
devices by the many functions one is able to fit in the small touch screens.
The authors acknowledge smartphones by being able to Make calls, send emails, watch and share photos and videos, play video games and music,
keep track of appointments and contacts, surf the Internet, use voice search,
check news and weather, use chat applications for voice calls and texting
and interact on social networks (321). In the survey that was taken the
objectives were to find out how much smartphones affect people on an
everyday basis, who are the main users, and what is the age ranges of those
individuals. The survey concluded that the use of smartphones has
contributed to a decrease in academics, sleep, and an increase to peoples
stress levels.
According to the survey smartphone addiction risk increases by one
standard deviation from its mean, perceived stress would be expected to
increase by .2 standard deviations from its own mean, while holding all other
relevant regional connections constant (323). Also, Of 249 respondents,
54.2% were male. The average respondent was 20.96 years old (SD 1.93)
with an overall range between 17 and 26 years old. The percentage of
students who were at high risk of smartphone addiction (44.6%) was slightly
lower than that of students at low risk (49.1%). The percentage of students
identified as having high levels of perceived stress (53.4%) was slightly

greater than the percentage of students reporting low levels of perceived

stress (46.6%) (323).
Other Quotes

Several studies have found a negative association between cellphone

use and academic performance (322).

Smartphone use has been changing daily routines, habits, social

behaviors, emancipative values, family relations and social interactions

(321).

The survey was composed of four separate sections, including one for

demographic information and three separate research instruments. The

demographic information section included gender, age, education level, and
academic major (322).

Results showed that risk of smartphone addiction can be linked to

satisfaction with life via perceived stress and academic performance (323).
Analysis
This reading was a very informational read. I really enjoyed reading
about this survey that was taken comparing smartphones to possible risks.
This piece falls perfectly in line with my topic about the issues dealing with
smartphones. I think I will have no problem implementing this data into my
thesis. I feel this information was a medium read, as one needed to know

about multiple topics surrounding the issues of smartphones. I think that

with this piece, the knowledge of long term effects of smartphones are still to
be determined, as this is fairly new technology, however, if any relation to
the short term, the future is uncertain.