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Computers in Human Behavior 57 (2016) 153e159 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Computers in Human Behavior journal homepage: /locate/comphumbeh Full length article Are we addicted to our cell phones? * M. Sapacz , G. Rockman, J. Clark University of Winnipeg, Department of Psychology, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: Cellular telephone use has become extremely widespread over the past several years. There has been Received 28 August 2015 concern that current high levels of cell phone use may be compared to a behavioral addiction. However, Received in revised form this has yet to be thoroughly tested. This area of research also lacks in determining what the causes and 15 November 2015 consequences of consistent cell phone use may be. The present study examined the prevalence of Accepted 1 December 2015 Available online 24 December 2015 characteristics of a cell phone addiction among a university student population along with possible predictors of high frequency use. Participants were a total of 152 undergraduate students (n ¼ 35 males and n ¼ 117 females). It was hypothesized that anxiety, as measured using self-report questionnaires, Keywords: Anxiety would increase upon having access to ones cell phone limited for high frequency users. However, anx