New types of behavioral addictions related to the use of modern technologies. Adaptation and evaluation of the usefulness of the MPPUS-10 scale of problematic use of the mobile phone (Mobile Phone Problem Use Scale-10) in Polish conditions.

The main goal of this project is to adapt to Polish conditions the tool for identifying people at risk of MPPUS-10 problematic use of the mobile phone. The implementation of this part of the project will include the process of translation and cultural adaptation of the scale in question. The actual research will be preceded by a pilot project involving a group of 40 students. Information collected as part of the pilot will be taken into account in the process of scale adaptation. After the final version of the questionnaire is agreed and approved by the author of the MPPUS-10 source version, a study will be carried out on a 600-person population of students of Medicine and Dental Medicine at the Medical University of Warsaw and a 100-person population of people addicted to psychoactive substances covered by the NFZ, UMSW and KBPN programs implemented in the offices of PTZN. The criterion excluding from the study will be the inability to complete the entire questionnaire independently. The aim of the study, apart from the MPPUS-10 adaptation, is to estimate the scale of the phenomenon of dysfunctional use of the Internet and mobile phones and to monitor their prevalence, to identify factors predisposing to and protecting against addiction to modern technologies, impulsivity as a risk factor for problematic use of the Internet and mobile phones, and to assess the coexistence of dysfunctional use of modern technologies with disorders of the use of psychoactive substances. As a result of the project, it is expected to increase social awareness of the problem of abuse of modern technologies and to provide data that may turn out to be important in planning preventive and educational activities. The adapted MPPUS-fO scale, once it has been found to be useful for the assessment of factors related to the problematic use of a mobile phone, can also be used in further research on addiction to modern technologies. EXPECTED RESULTS: Taking into account the phenomenological similarities of behavioral addiction and addiction to psychoactive substances, it also seems justified to assess the coexistence of these two phenomena, as well as to verify the thesis that both phenomena may have the same risk factors. Therefore, the project in question assumes an analysis of personality traits (with particular emphasis on impulsivity), as well as a socio-demographic assessment with an emphasis on the analysis of factors that were associated with addiction to alcohol and other psychoactive substances.