Relationship of Smartphone Dependence to General Health Status and Personality Traits among University Students - Open Journal of Preventive Medicine

OJPM > Vol.6 No.10, October 2016

Open Journal of Preventive Medicine

Volume 6, Issue 10 (October 2016)

ISSN Print: 2162-2477 ISSN Online: 2162-2485

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Relationship of Smartphone Dependence to General Health Status and Personality Traits among University Students ()

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DOI: 10.4236/ojpm.2016.610020 1,773 Downloads 3,671 Views Citations

Author(s)

Masahiro Toda^1,2*, Satoko Ezoe³, Kanae Mure², Tatsuya Takeshita²

Affiliation(s)

¹Graduate School of Human Life Sciences, Notre Dame Seishin University, Okayama, Japan.
²Department of Public Health, Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama, Japan.
³Shimane University Health Service Center Izumo, Shimane, Japan.

ABSTRACT

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.

KEYWORDS

Dependence, General Health Status, Personality Traits, Smartphone, University Students, Wakayama Smartphone-Dependence Scale (WSDS)

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Toda, M. , Ezoe, S. , Mure, K. and Takeshita, T. (2016) Relationship of Smartphone Dependence to General Health Status and Personality Traits among University Students. Open Journal of Preventive Medicine, 6, 215-221. doi: 10.4236/ojpm.2016.610020.

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