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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Digit. Health
Sec. Digital Mental Health
Volume 7 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fdgth.2025.1351955

Predictors of Smartphone Addiction and Its Effect on Quality of Life: A Cross-sectional Study among the Young Adults in Bangladesh

Provisionally accepted
ZUBAIR AHMED RATAN ZUBAIR AHMED RATAN 1*Anne-Maree Parrish Anne-Maree Parrish 2Mohammad Saud Alotaibi Mohammad Saud Alotaibi 3Hassan Hosseinzadeh Hassan Hosseinzadeh 2
  • 1 University of Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia
  • 2 School of Health and Society, Faculty of the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia
  • 3 Umm al-Qura University, Mecca, Saudi Arabia

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    The enigma of smartphone addiction (SA) has plagued academics for the last decade, now scholars believed this behaviour might affect physical and mental wellbeing. SA has become a complex problem, yet to date, there is limited research investigating the predictors of SA and its effect on "healthrelated quality of life (HRQoL)". This study aimed to address this gap. The data was gathered from a convenience sample of 440 young adults completed between July 2021 and February 2022 through online survey in Bangladesh. On Logistic regression, after controlling for socio-demographic variables; friend support, process, social and compulsive usage were determined as significant predictors of SA. Those who were smartphone addicted were more presumably to have a lower quality of life. This study has significant implications for designing prevention pro-grams and policy development in relation to predictors of SA and its effect on HRQoL.

    Keywords: Smartphone addiction, predictors, Quality of Life, Bangladesh, Compulsive usage

    Received: 19 Dec 2023; Accepted: 22 Jan 2025.

    Copyright: © 2025 RATAN, Parrish, Alotaibi and Hosseinzadeh. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: ZUBAIR AHMED RATAN, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, 2522, New South Wales, Australia

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