TY - JOUR
T1 - Relationships of personality and lifestyle with mobile phone dependence among female nursing students
AU - Ezoe, Satoko
AU - Toda, Masahiro
AU - Yoshimura, Kimio
AU - Naritomi, Aki
AU - Den, Rei
AU - Morimoto, Kanehisa
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - To clarify the relationships of personality and lifestyle with mobile phone dependence, defined as an intermittent craving to use a mobile phone or excessive mobile phone use, we administered a self-report questionnaire to 132 female college students attending a nursing school in Osaka, Japan. Results of multiple regression analysis indicated that scores for extroversion and neuroticism were positively related to the score of the Mobile Phone Dependence Questionnaire (MPDQ; Toda, Monden, Kubo, & Morimoto, 2004), while the score for healthy practices was negatively related to that of the MPDQ. These findings suggest that mobile phone dependence in female college students is associated with elevated traits of extroversion and neuroticism, as well as an unhealthy lifestyle.
AB - To clarify the relationships of personality and lifestyle with mobile phone dependence, defined as an intermittent craving to use a mobile phone or excessive mobile phone use, we administered a self-report questionnaire to 132 female college students attending a nursing school in Osaka, Japan. Results of multiple regression analysis indicated that scores for extroversion and neuroticism were positively related to the score of the Mobile Phone Dependence Questionnaire (MPDQ; Toda, Monden, Kubo, & Morimoto, 2004), while the score for healthy practices was negatively related to that of the MPDQ. These findings suggest that mobile phone dependence in female college students is associated with elevated traits of extroversion and neuroticism, as well as an unhealthy lifestyle.
KW - Extroversion
KW - Female college students
KW - Lifestyle
KW - Mobile phone dependence
KW - NEO-FFI
KW - Neuroticism
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U2 - 10.2224/sbp.2009.37.2.231
DO - 10.2224/sbp.2009.37.2.231
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:66849109413
SN - 0301-2212
VL - 37
SP - 231
EP - 238
JO - Social Behavior and Personality
JF - Social Behavior and Personality
IS - 2
ER -