Meu celular, meu vício: um estudo sobre dependência de smartphone nos universitários das instituições públicas de ensino superior do Brasil

Abstract

Since the mid-2000s, smartphones have become part of people's daily lives. Children easily have more audiovisual records in a year than their ancestors have in a lifetime, which is one of the consequences of the constantly evolving multimedia capabilities of cell phones. As a result, it is increasingly common to see people with behavioral dependence on their smartphones. Studies show that young people are more prone to this condition. Given this scenario, how is the smartphone addiction behaviour of student of Brazilian public higher education institutions? To answer this question, the main objective of this work is analyze the smartphone addiction behavior in students from Brazilian public higher education institutions using an single case pre-experiment, and an application called "My Smartphone, My Addiction" (MCMV) was developed to Android smartphones with the purpose of record, besides use habits, the answers from of Smartphone Addiction Inventory test and socioeconomic questionnaire. The sample validated by the defined parameters was 66 subjects (men=38%, woman=62%), 86% singles, from all region from Brazil, in all high education levels (undergraduate, graduate, masters and doctorate). The results showed a general prevalence of smartphone addiction of 63% (men=53%, woman=70%). The smartphone uses average time measured by the MCMV is then more of 6 hours in a day, and occur 70 smartphone unlocks daily, on average. The app registered also how many times and how much time was spent in smartphone short verifications (92 times in a day, with every check spent 4 seconds, on average). Finally, five applications with the highest number of executions belong to the Chat/Communication and Social Network categories. However, the biggest use times registered are from apps from Video and Movies/TV shows categories. Also, this dissertation shows, as social contributions, that the more in-depth the study of smartphone addictions are, the better social policies can be created by the government. In private sector, the results allowed the main board the development of actions to awareness of the proper use of this device. In the end, the contributions in academic area are the reviews of literature about main works, and the smartphone addiction tests created, the development of app and data collection receive algorithm. It should also be noted that this is one of the first works in Brazil to use an application on the participant's smartphone for data collection.