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http://dx.doi.org/10.5762/KAIS.2017.18.1.637

The Relationship among Smartphone addiction, Communication ability, Loneliness and Interpersonal relationship for university students  

Kim, In-Kyoung (Department of Nursing, Hanseo University)
Park, Sang-Wook (Division of Global Education, Korea Institute for Curriculum and Evaluation)
Choi, Hye-Mi (Department of Nursing, Doowon Technical University)
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Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society / v.18, no.1, 2017 , pp. 637-648 More about this Journal
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships among smartphone addiction, communication ability, loneliness, and interpersonal relationships in university students in Korea. Between 15 and 31 May 2016, 263 subjects completed a questionnaire consisting of questions on smartphone addiction, communication ability, loneliness, and health of interpersonal relationships. Among smartphone addiction questions there were significant differences between genders (t = 2.350, p = 0.019) and educational grade (F = 3.313, p = 0.021). With regard to human relationship health, the scores for males were significantly higher than those for females (t = 2.337, p = 0.020). The smartphone addiction and human relationship health results were negatively correlated (r = -0.157, p = 0.011). In contrast, communication ability and human relationship health results were positively correlated (r = 0.581, p < 0.001). However, loneliness and human relationship health were not significantly correlated. The final multiple regression model explaining human relationship health included smartphone addiction (t = 2.753, p = 0.006), communication ability (t = 11.714, p < 0.001), and motivation for smartphone purchase (t = 2.125, p = 0.035) as independent factors. The final model explained 36.6% of the total variance. In order to improve university students' human relationship health, solutions for smartphone addiction and low communication skills are required. This results of this study can be used as a basis on which to develop a human relationship health intervention program.
Keywords
Addiction; Communication; Interpersonal relationship; Loneliness; Smartphone;
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