EXAMINING THE IMPACT OF SMARTPHONE ADDICTION ON PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL-BEING OF MALAYSIAN YOUTH
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UNIVERSITI MALAYSIA SARAWAK
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This study aimed to verify the prevalence of smartphone addiction youth, the correlation of smartphone addiction and psychological well-being, and to predict smartphone addiction factor (time spent, compulsivity, daily life interference, craving, sleep interference) that contribute to psychological well-being of Malaysian youth. This study utilized a quantitative method using a convenient sampling methodology involving 120 youths in Malaysia. The data obtained were analysed using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) divided into descriptive statistics and inferential statistics. The finding indicates that a significant number of respondents scored high level of smartphone addiction (N=75, 62.5%). This study also indicates that there are significant correlations between smartphone addiction and psychological well-being (r = -0.189, P= 0.039). similarly, this study also indicates that there is significant factor that contribute to psychological well-being which are compulsivity, life interference and craving that obtained p value less than 0.005 with p = 0.026, 0.045, 0.01 respectively. The result of this study, can be seen from the perspectives of youth’s improvement in that the significant of the youth’s psychological well-being and habit of smartphone use to assure the enhancement of healthy lifestyle that led to personal characters improvement.