This empirical study shows how people use their smartphones by employing the rational addiction model of Becker and Murphy. The analysis uses micro-level panel data on the monthly usage of smartphone applications (so-called “apps”) derived from 10,337 users in South Korea, from 2012 to 2016....

We investigated associations between smartphone dependence and perceived parental rearing attitudes. We administered a set of self-reporting questionnaires to 195 medical-university students designed to evaluate these factors. For females, the maternal high care/high protection group had...

Online shopping environment is a relatively novel perception and has changed the way people communicate and do the business. The rising internet penetration facilitated a shift from conventional marketing to interactive marketing. Online shopping is one such marketing service which is available...

There are extensive studies about video game addiction. However, empirical research on this topic in a workplace context is rare. The purpose of this study, is to empirically test how video game addiction affects organizational behaviors and how to attenuate this effect. The SEM analysis of...

The main aim of this study is to understand the bullying behavior and its impact towards negative emotions among IT employees. There are two factors in bullying, workplace bullying and cyber bullying, which have an influence on emotional and social loneliness, depression, anxiety, stress and...

Sang (丧) culture is a youth subculture that has emerged in recent China. Through the lens of self-mocking memes, this exploratory study attempts to understand the psychological mechanisms and social meanings behind sang culture. A survey research of Chinese college students (N=506) were...

The rationale of the article is to describe the use of the Internet for psychological treatment in a clinical setting. Internet-based psychotherapy as a therapeutic tool, that offers an anonymous way for people to search for information and participate in treatment. Research studies on web-based...

This article details the results of a descriptive study that analyzes the characteristics and impact of cyberbullying among native and immigrant students enrolled in secondary education. Results indicate that immigrant children experience higher levels than native students of cyberbullying...

Social media such as Facebook and Twitter have grown to be popular communication tools that, ironically, have a negative aspect of increasing users' opportunity to feel envy. In this study, the authors examine the difference in the envy sensitivity people feel when online using several different...

This research explored the effect of social network sites (SNS) use intensity in the workplace on three aspects of job burnout. The data were collected from non-teaching employees from universities in the U.S. (N = 174) and in Thailand (N = 182). Results from partial least squares regression...