Smartphone addiction: relationship between procrastination, general health and human values

This research aimed to understand the predictive role of human values, procrastination and general health in relation to smartphone dependence. Participated 390 people from the gen-eral, with ages ranging from 18 to 69 years old (M = 27, SD = 8.91), mostly female (71%). They answered the Smartphone Addiction Scale (SAS, reduced version), Tuckman's Procrastination Scale, General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12), Basic Values Survey (BVS) and demographic questions. The results indicating that smartphone dependence is positively related to procras-tination, resulting in damage to general health, such as higher levels of anxiety and depres-sion. It was concluded that values, procrastination and anxiety levels were shown to be im-portant predictors for smartphone-dependent behavior.