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Toda, Masahiro Graduate School of Human Life Sciences, Notre Dame Seishin University, Okayama, Japan. /Department of Public Health, Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama, Japan.
Mure, Kanae Department of Public Health, Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama, Japan.
Takeshita, Tatsuya Department of Public Health, Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama, Japan.
Description
We investigated associations between smartphone dependence and general health status or personality traits. To 197 medical university students, we administered a set of self-reporting questionnaires designed to evaluate these parameters. For males, smartphone dependence positively correlated with somatic symptoms, anxiety and insomnia, and emotional instability, and negatively correlated with agreeableness. For females, smartphone dependence positively correlated with somatic symptoms, severe depression, and extraversion, and negatively correlated with social dysfunction. These findings suggest that smartphone dependence may be associated with general health status or personality traits and that there may be a gender difference in these associations.
Subject
Dependence
General Health Status
Personality Traits
Smartphone
University Students
Wakayama Smartphone-Dependence Scale (WSDS)
Journal Title
Open Journal of Preventive Medicine
Volume
6
Issue
10
Start Page
215
End Page
221
Published Date
2016-10-11
DOI
Publisher
Scientific Research Publishing Inc.
NII Type
Journal Article
Format
PDF
Rights
Copyright © 2020 by authors and Scientific Research Publishing Inc. / This work and the related PDF file are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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出版社版
Gyoseki ID
e31489
OAI-PMH Set
Health Service Center