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Correspondence: Halime Senay Guzel, Ankara Yildirim Beyazit University, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of Psychology, Ankara Turkey E-mail: senaysenyuva35@gmail.com Received: January 02, 2020; Revised: March 27, 2020; Accepted: June 09, 2020 ABSTRACT Objective: This study mainly aims to investigate the relationship between smartphone addiction in adults and their problem solving skills and the way they deal with stress. It is also intended to examine the sociodemographic variables associated with smartphone addiction. Method: The sample of the study comprises 306 adults (183 female 123 male). Problem Solving Skills Inventory, Coping With Stress Inventory, Smartphone Addiction Scale and Demographic Information Form were used to collect data. The SPSS 25.0 package program was used to analyze the data and the significance level was accepted as p<0.05 in all statistical evaluations. Results: In the study, participants without having self-confident style in coping with stress were hown to have a higher degree of smartphone addiction than those chosen the other coping sytles. Moreover, it was found that smartphone addiction scores are significantly higher in male participants than female, and in those in their early adulthoods than in their middle one, and that the level of smartphone addiction increases as the daily smartphone usage time increases. Conclusion: According to the results of the study, it was found that the way of coping with stress was especially effective on smartphone addiction which is currently considered as a behavioral addiction.

The ınvestigation of the relationship between smartphone addiction, and problem-solving skills and ways of coping with stress