This book has critically examined the conceptualisation, measurement, research practices, and proposed treatment of smartphone addiction to highlight ongoing tensions and debates. In this final chapter, we draw together these key issues and messages and offer practical solutions for how to move forward in research and policy. We focus on five recommendations: to abandon screen time (and other general measures of phone use), a need for greater methodological diversity, the adoption of open scientific practices wherever possible, to refine and improve measurement practices, and to urge caution when applying an addictions perspective to everyday, technology based behaviours.

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Addressing the Problems in Smartphone Addiction Research

  • Richard James,
  • Lucy Hitcham

摘要

This book has critically examined the conceptualisation, measurement, research practices, and proposed treatment of smartphone addiction to highlight ongoing tensions and debates. In this final chapter, we draw together these key issues and messages and offer practical solutions for how to move forward in research and policy. We focus on five recommendations: to abandon screen time (and other general measures of phone use), a need for greater methodological diversity, the adoption of open scientific practices wherever possible, to refine and improve measurement practices, and to urge caution when applying an addictions perspective to everyday, technology based behaviours.