Blackberry addiction: Symptoms and outcomes

14th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2008

Volumn 5, Issue , 2008, Pages 2754-2764

  Turel, Ofir ^a   Serenko, Alexander ^b   Bontis, Nick ^c  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LAKEHEAD UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adoption; Mobile email; Organizational commitment; Technology addiction; Technology family conflict; Usefulness; Work overload; Work family conflict

Indexed keywords

ADOPTION; MOBILE E-MAIL; ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT; TECHNOLOGY-FAMILY CONFLICT; USEFULNESS; WORK OVERLOAD; WORK-FAMILY CONFLICT;

ELECTRONIC MAIL; INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84870264448     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (42)

1. Adams, G. A., King, L. A. and King, D. W. (1996) Relationships of job and family involvement, family social support, and work-family conflict with job and life satisfaction, Journal of Applied Psychology, 81, 4, 411-420.
2. Adams, J. S. (1965) Inequity in social exchange, In: Advances in experimental social psychology, Vol. 2 (Ed, Berkowitz, L.) Academic Press, New York, NY, USA, pp. 267-299.
3. Ahuja, M. K., Chudoba, K. M., Kacmar, C. J., McKnight, D. H. and George, J. F. (2007) IT Road Warriors: Balancing Work-Family Conflict, Job Autonomy, and Work Overload to Mitigate Turnover Intentions, MIS Quarterly, 31, 1, 1-17.
4. Beard, K. W. and Wolf, E. M. (2001) Modification in the proposed diagnostic criteria for internet addiction, Cyberpsychology & Behavior, 4, 3, 377-383.
5. Brown, R. I. F. (1997) A theoretical model of the behavioral addictions-applied to offending, In: Addicted to crime (Eds, Hodge, J. E., McMurran, M. and Hollin, C. R.) Wiley, Chichester, UK.
6. Charlton, J. P. and Danforth, I. D. W. (2007) Distinguishing addiction and high engagement in the context of online game playing, Computers In Human Behavior, 23, 3, 1531-1548.
7. Chou, T. J. and Ting, C. C. (2003) The role of flow experience in cyber-game addiction, Cyberpsychology & Behavior, 6, 6, 663-675.
8. Cohen, A. (1992) Antecedents of organizational commitment across occupational groups- A meta-analysis, Journal of Organizational Behavior, 13, 6, 539-558.
9. Davis, F. (1989) Perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, and user acceptance of information technology, MIS Quarterly, 13, 3, 319-340.
10. Davis, R. A., Flett, G. L. and Besser, A. (2002) Validation of a new scale for measuring problematic Internet use: Implications for pre-employment screening, Cyberpsychology & Behavior, 5, 4, 331-345.
11. Duxbury, L. E. and Higgins, C. A. (1991) Gender Differences In Work-Family Conflict, Journal Of Applied Psychology, 76, 1, 60-74.
12. Ferraro, G., Caci, B., D'Amico, A. and Di Blasi, M. (2007) Internet addiction disorder: An Italian study, Cyberpsychology & Behavior, 10, 2, 170-175.
13. Fornell, C. and Larcker, D. F. (1981) Evaluating structural equation models with unobservable variables and measurement error, Journal of Marketing Research, 18, 1, 39-50.
14. Fox News (2006), Professor: Blackberry addiction lawsuits likely in future, www.oxnews.com, accessed on Feb. 2, 2008
15. Frone, M. R., Russell, M. and Cooper, M. L. (1992) Antecedents and outcomes of work family conflict - Testing a model of the work family interface, Journal of Applied Psychology, 77, 1, 65-78.
16. Greenberg, J. (1990) Employee theft as a reaction to underpayment inequity - The hidden cost of pay cuts, Journal of Applied Psychology, 75, 5, 561-568.
17. Griffiths, M. D. (1992) Pinball wizard: The case of a pinball machine addict, Psychological Reports, 71, 1, 160-162.
18. Griffiths, M. D. (1999) Internet addiction: Fact or fiction?, The Psychologist, 12, 5, 246-251.
19. Griffiths, M. D., Davies, M. N. O. and Chappell, D. (2003) Breaking the stereotype: The case of online gaming, Cyberpsychology & Behavior, 6, 1, 81-91.
20. Hur, M. H. (2006) Demographic, habitual, and socioeconomic determinants of Internet addiction disorder: An empirical study of Korean teenagers, Cyberpsychology & Behavior, 9, 5, 514-525.
21. Igbaria, M. and Greenhaus, J. H. (1992) Determinants of MIS employees turnover intentions- A structural equation model, Communications of the ACM, 35, 2, 34-49.
22. Jackson, C. L., Colquitt, J. A., Wesson, M. J. and Zapata-Phelan, C. P. (2006) Psychological collectivism: A measurement validation and linkage to group member performance, Journal of Applied Psychology, 91, 4, 884-899.
23. Jones, E. E. and Davis, K. (1965) From acts to dispositions: The attribution process in person perception, In: Advances in experimental social psychology, Vol. 2 (Ed, Berkowitz, L.) Academic Press, New York, pp. 219-266.
24. Lin, X. H. (2004) Internet addiction disorder, on-line behavior and personality: An exploratory study, International Journal of Psychology, 39, 5-6, 272-272.
25. Lohmoller, J.-B. (1989) Latent variable path modeling with Partial Least Squares, Physica-Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany.
26. Markel, K. S. and Frone, M. R. (1998) Job characteristics, work-school conflict, and school outcomes among adolescents: Testing a structural model, Journal of Applied Psychology, 83, 2, 277-287.
27. May, K. (2008) Blackberry blackout imposed on PS, Ottawa Citizen, Friday, February 01, A1.
28. Mcintyre, S. (2006) Blackberry addiction 'similar to drugs' In Daily Mail Dailymail.co.uk. accessed on Aug. 22, 2007
29. Middleton, C. A. and Cukier, W. (2006) Is mobile email functional or dysfunctional? Two perspectives on mobile email usage, European Journal of Information Systems, 15, 3, 252-260.
30. Miller, D. T. and Ross, M. (1975) Self-serving biases in the attribution of causality: Facts or fiction?, Psychological Bulletin, 82, 2, 213-225.
31. Moore, J. E. (2000) One road to turnover: An examination of work exhaustion in technology professionals, Mis Quarterly, 24, 1, 141-168.
32. Parasuraman, S., Purohit, Y. S., Godshalk, V. M. and Beutell, N. J. (1996) Work and family variables, entrepreneurial career success, and psychological well-being, Journal of Vocational Behavior, 48, 3, 275-300.
33. Peeters, M. C. W., Schaufeli, W. B. and Buunk, B. P. (1995) The role of attributions in the cognitive appraisal of work-related stressful events: An event-recording approach, Work and Stress, 9, 4, 463-474.
34. Peterson, C., Semmel, A., von Baeyer, C., Abramson, L. Y., Metalsky, G. I. and Seligman, M. E. P. (1982) The Attributional Style Questionnaire, Cognitive Therapy and Research, 6, 3, 287-300.
35. Stephens, G. K. and Sommer, S. M. (1996) The measurement of work to family conflict, Educational And Psychological Measurement, 56, 3, 475-486.
36. Turel, O., Serenko, A. and Bontis, N. (2007) User acceptance of wireless short messaging services: Deconstructing perceived value, Information & Management, 44, 1, 63-73.
37. vandenBerg, P. T. and Schalk, R. (1997) Type A behavior, well-being, work overload, and role-related stress in information work, Journal of Social Behavior and Personality, 12, 1, 175-187.
38. Wallace, J. E. (1997) It's about time: A study of hours worked and work spillover among law firm lawyers, Journal of Vocational Behavior, 50, 2, 227-248.
39. Weiner, B., Frieze, I., Kukla, A., Reed, L., Rest, S. and Rosenbaum, R. M. (1972) Perceiving the causes of success and failure, In: Attribution: Perceiving the causes of behavior (Eds, Jones, E. E., Kanouse, D. E., Kelly, H. H., Nisbett, R. E., Valins, S. and Weiner, B.) General Learning Press, Morristown, N.J., pp. 95-120.
40. Whang, L. S. M., Lee, S. and Chang, G. (2003) Internet over-users' psychological profiles: A behavior sampling analysis on Internet addiction, Cyberpsychology & Behavior, 6, 2, 143-150.
41. Young, K. S. (1998) Internet addiction: The emergence of a new clinical disorder, Cyberpsychology & Behavior, 3, 2, 237-244.
42. Young, K. S. (2007) Cognitive behavior therapy with Internet addicts: Treatment outcomes and implications, Cyberpsychology & Behavior, 10, 671-679.