Problematic mobile phone use as impulsive choice: Development and empirical verification of a reinforcer-pathology model.
behavioral economics
delay discounting
demand analysis
preference reversal
problematic mobile phone use
reinforcer pathology
Journal
Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior
ISSN: 1938-3711
Titre abrégé: J Exp Anal Behav
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 0203727
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Mar 2024
Mar 2024
Historique:
received:
15
04
2023
accepted:
18
11
2023
medline:
18
3
2024
pubmed:
27
12
2023
entrez:
27
12
2023
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Problematic mobile phone use is characterized by its "impulsive" nature; users engage in it despite their negative attitude toward it. From a behavioral-economic perspective, this attitude-behavior discrepancy is generated by competing contingencies that involve smaller-sooner social reinforcers associated with mobile phone use and larger-later prosocial reinforcers potentially compromised by phone use. Based on this conceptualization, the reinforcer-pathology model of problematic mobile phone use is proposed, which posits that such phone use stems from excessive delay discounting of the social and prosocial reinforcers and/or excessive demand for the social reinforcers. A secondary data analysis of previously published studies was conducted, with the novel addition of principal component analysis and hierarchical cluster analysis of these data. The results generated evidence that supports the reinforcer-pathology model proposed in this article. Based on the theoretical analyses and accumulated empirical evidence, theory-driven prevention and intervention strategies for problematic mobile phone use are proposed. Overall, the reinforcer-pathology model of problematic mobile phone use provides a comprehensive framework for understanding and addressing this growing issue.
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
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IM
Pagination
189-200Informations de copyright
© 2023 Society for the Experimental Analysis of Behavior.
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