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Smartphone Use and Loneliness Among Female University Students: The Impact of Having or Not Having a Boyfriend

Smartphone Use and Loneliness Among Female University Students: The Impact of Having or Not Having a Boyfriend
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Author(s): Masahiro Toda (Notre Dame Seishin University, Japan)and Arisa Takagi (Notre Dame Seishin University, Japan)
Copyright: 2025
Volume: 15
Issue: 1
Pages: 9
Source title: International Journal of Cyber Behavior, Psychology and Learning (IJCBPL)
Editor(s)-in-Chief: Nadia Mansour Bouzaida (University of Sousse, Tunisia & University of Salamanca, Spain)
DOI: 10.4018/IJCBPL.368562

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Abstract

Administering a set of self-reporting questionnaires to 169 people who identify as female university students, this study investigated associations between smartphone-dependence scores and scores for loneliness and trait anxiety. Loneliness and trait-anxiety scores correlated with scores for smartphone dependence only for respondents who did not have a boyfriend: No similar association was apparent for those who had a boyfriend. These findings suggest that having or not having a boyfriend is a factor both in smartphone dependence and in loneliness and trait anxiety.

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