The Relationship between personality traits and attachment styles with smartphone addiction

Smartphones have been used for various purposes in people's lives in recent years, but excessive use has turned into addiction in many cases. The present study was conducted with the aim of investigating the relationship between personality traits and attachment styles with the level of smartphone addiction in Semnan University students. This research was descriptive and correlational, and for this purpose, 130 students of Semnan University were selected by available sampling method. The research tools were NEO-FFI short form, Hazen and Shaver adult attachment style questionnaire and Greenfield smartphone addiction test. The data were analyzed using Pearson correlation coefficient tests, multivariate regression analysis. Step by step and t-test for independent groups were analyzed. The results of data analysis showed that the variables of ambivalent attachment style and conscientiousness personality trait have a predictive role in smartphone addiction. This means that people with ambivalent attachment style are more likely to get addicted to their smartphone, while this relationship is reversed for the conscientious personality trait, and conscientious people have a higher chance of not getting addicted to their smartphone than others. Also, male students show more addictive behaviors towards their smartphones than girls.