The Role of Difficulty in Emotion Regulation and Loneliness Feeling in Predicting Cell-phone over Use in Adolescents

With recent advances in technology, tools such as computers, the Internet and mobile phones are now deeply affecting people's lives. The aim of this study was to investigate the role of difficulty in emotion regulation and loneliness Feeling in predicting cell-phone over use in adolescents. This research was descriptive and correlational. The statistical population of this study was all high school students in Urmia in 2020-2021, from which 400 people with were selected by convenience sampling. Research instruments included the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (Gratz and Roemer, 2004), the loneliness Feeling Scale (Asher et al. 1984) and cell- phone over use Scale (Jenaro et al. 2007). Stepwise regression was used to analyze the data. Findings showed that difficulty in emotion regulation and loneliness had a significant positive relationship with cell- phone over use. Results also showed that difficulties controlling impulsive behaviors predict 0.18, loneliness Feeling 0.23, and limited access to effective emotion regulation strategies 0.20 of the variance of cell- phone over use. Given the role of difficulty in emotion regulation and loneliness feeling in predicting cell-phone over use, it seems necessary to conduct workshops based on emotion regulation and loneliness feeling