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A smartphone is not a high-tech communication device any longer but has now become contemporary people’s essential necessity in their daily life. Despite its apparent benefits, a smartphone is not always beneficial. Thus, this study investigates the dark side of the smartphone trend. For this purpose, the current study examines how smartphone addiction is affected by smartphone characteristics namely ubiquity and convenience; user characteristics namely materialism and loneliness; and relational characteristics namely social interaction anxiety and relationship control. It also seeks to find out what relation there is between smartphone addiction and stress. The research model was conducted through the structural equation modeling (SEM) approach, and tested using 272 questionnaires. According to the results of this study, both ubiquity and convenience, the two variables of the smartphone characteristic, had a significant effect on smartphone addiction. Of the two variables of the user characteristic, materialism had a significant effect on smartphone addiction but loneliness did not. Both social interaction anxiety and relationship control, the two variables of the relational characteristic, were in a significant relation with smartphone addiction. In addition, smartphone addiction was found to have a positive effect on technostress. The results of this study have crucial implications concerning the negative aspect of smartphone use.
