One of the least satisfactorily conceptualized psychological phenomena, which plays an essential role in the genesis of mental disorder.
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Predicting Psychological Characteristics by Smartphone Usage Behaviors
Yusong Gao (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China), Minglong Lei (The 6th Research Institute of China Electronics Corporation, China), and Tingshao Zhu (Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Copyright: © 2015
|Pages: 18
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-8239-9.ch036
Abstract
In recent years, smartphones become rapidly popular across the world. Meanwhile, since mental health problems became more serious, psychological characteristics including personalities and mental health state draw more researchers' attention. Generally, self-report and interview are two mostly used techniques for assessing people's mental state or personality traits. In this chapter, we overviewed some researches that focused on accessing psychological characteristics by smartphone usage behaviors. Firstly, we discussed some previous researches analyzing smartphone usage behaviors and psychological characteristics, and further discussed typical research work predicting psychological characteristics based on smartphone usage behaviors. In these literatures, results indicated that most dimensions of users' mental state and personality traits could be identified from their smartphone usage fairly well.