The Role of Depression and Attachment Styles in Predicting Students’ Addiction to Cell Phones

Background: the present study aimed at investigating the role of depression and attachment styles in predicting cell phone addiction. methods: in this descriptive correlational study, a sample including 100 students of payame noor university (pnu), reyneh center, iran, in the academic year of 2013-2014 was selected using volunteer sampling. participants were asked to complete the adult attachment inventory (aai), beck depression inventory-13 (bdi-13) and the cell phone overuse scale (cos). findings: results of the stepwise multiple regression analysis showed that depression and avoidant attachment style were the best predictors of students’ cell phone addiction (r2 = 0.23). conclusion: the results of this study highlighted the predictive value of depression and avoidant attachment style concerning students’ cell phone addiction.