Relationships of loneliness and mobile phone dependence with Internet addiction in Japanese medical students - Open Journal of Preventive Medicine

OJPM > Vol.3 No.6, September 2013

Relationships of loneliness and mobile phone dependence with Internet addiction in Japanese medical students ()

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DOI: 10.4236/ojpm.2013.36055 11,997 Downloads 21,605 Views Citations

Author(s)

Satoko Ezoe, Masahiro Toda

Affiliation(s)

Department of Pharmacology, Osaka Dental University, Osaka, Japan.
Shimane University, Health Service Center Izumo, Shimane, Japan;.

ABSTRACT

We investigated factors contributing to Internet addiction in 105 Japanese medical students. The subjects were administered by a self-reporting questionnaire designed to evaluate demographic factors, Internet addiction, loneliness, health-related lifestyle factors, depressive state, patterns of behavior, and mobile phone dependence. Results of multivariate logistic regression analysis indicated that loneliness and mobile phone dependence were positively related to degree of addiction. Our findings suggest that Internet addiction is associated with loneliness and mobile phone dependence in Japanese students.

KEYWORDS

Internet Addiction; Mobile Phone Dependence; Loneliness; Depression; Medical Students

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Ezoe, S. and Toda, M. (2013) Relationships of loneliness and mobile phone dependence with Internet addiction in Japanese medical students. Open Journal of Preventive Medicine, 3, 407-412. doi: 10.4236/ojpm.2013.36055.

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