ABSTRACT
The current study sought to investigate the relationship between smartphone addiction and preschoolers’ ability to regulate their emotions and cognition. A sample of N=110 preschoolers was selected using the purposive sampling method from the general community of Bahawalpur, Pakistan. The current study employed a cross-sectional research approach. Data was gathered using the Korean Smartphone Addiction Proneness Scale for Young Children by Kim and Lee (2014) and the cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (CERQ) kid’s version by Garnefski et al. Version 21 of SPSS was used to evaluate the data. The study’s hypotheses were tested using frequency distribution, descriptive statistics, bivariate correlation, and regression analysis. The findings indicated that smartphone addiction among preschoolers was high. It was shown that there was a substantial correlation between cognitive emotion management techniques and smartphone addiction. Rumination, positive reappraisal, perspective-taking, refocusing on planning, and positive refocusing were discovered to have a significant negative correlation with cognitive emotion regulation strategies, whereas selfblame, acceptance, catastrophizing, and other blame were discovered to have a significant positive correlation with smartphone addiction. Additionally, especially among preschoolers, smartphone addiction has a considerable impact on cognitive emotion management skills.
