This is the full data set (N=121) on a study of psychological factors associated with smartphone use. The data was collected between October 2016 and November 2017 by Dr Graham Pluck and colleagues, in a university in Ecuador. The dataset forms the basis of a single research paper to be submitted for publication in a psychology journal. It will be initially submitted to British Journal of Psychology. The main data set comprises item by item scores on a personality measures (EPQ-R, BIS-15) and a psychological distress scale (HADS). There is a measure of problem phone use (MPPUS). These were administered in Spanish. Also included are data from a the D-KEFS Trail Making Test, the (Spanish) Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test, a Continuous Performance Test, a Stop-signal Task, Card Arrange Reward Responsivity Objective Test (CARROT) and a 'Taffel-type' test of verbal operant conditioning. A secondary data set contains scores from a test-retest study of two of the measures, the BIS-15 and the MPPUS.

Dataset for: Pluck, G. & Barrera Falconi, P. E. (2021). Sensitivity to financial rewards and impression management links to smartphone use and dependence. Cognition, Brain, Behavior. An Interdisciplinary Journal, 25(2), 107-128. https://doi.org/10.24193/cbb.2021.25.06