Study the relationship of Big five factors and Cell-phone Over-use in students

This research was carried out with the purpose of relationship of Big five factors including Neuroticism, Extroversion, Openness to experience, Agreeableness and Conscientiousness, with cell-phone over-use. 275 students from Islamic Azad university Dezful branch participated in this study. The research instruments were included cell-phone over-use Scale (Jenaro & et al, 2007) and NEO-PI-R five-factor inventory. Pearson correlation and multiple regressions (stepwise) were applied to analyze the data. Findings indicated that the cell-phone over-use has significant positive relationship with neuroticism and negative significant relationship with extroversion. Other results denoted that N& E can explain 10 percent of variant of cell-phone over-use. More results indicated that there is no significant difference in cell-phone use level between the technical and humanistic students. In the contrary, there is a significant difference between married and single, boy and girl students. Then it is concluded that cell-phone use in female students were higher than male ones and he use of cell-phone in single students were higher than married students as well (p<0.001). The results show the importance of personality factors in predicting the cell-phone over-use in students.