Smartphone addiction and impulsivity

Bachelor’s thesis/final project (in Spanish, “Trabajo de Fin de Grado”). I review past research on the relationship between impulsivity and smartphone consumption. It’s my intention to conduct the study soon, at least with simulated data.

Description

In an era of increasing interconnectivity and technological development, smartphones have become a constant in our lives, to the point of even generating dependence problems in some people. But what factors explain this abusive use?

I focus in this paper mainly on two concepts coming from behavioral economics, delay discounting and level of demand. These concepts are closely related to impulsivity and motivation and in the scientific literature it is common to see them associated with problems of substance addiction and gambling. However, their relationship with other addictive-type problems is not yet well explored. In this paper I propose a study to assess the predictive validity that these variables have on the abusive use of the smartphone. The technique I propose for the analysis of this relationship is OLS multiple linear regression.

If you would like to know more about this project, you can read the paper (in Spanish) here