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Smartphone addiction and its relationship with social anxiety and loneliness

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  • Asli Enez Darcin
  • Samet Kose
  • Cemal Onur Noyan
  • Serdar Nurmedov
  • Onat Yılmaz
  • Nesrin Dilbaz

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Individuals with psychosocial problems such as social phobia or feelings of loneliness might be vulnerable to excessive use of cyber-technological devices, such as smartphones. We aimed to determine the relationship of smartphone addiction with social phobia and loneliness in a sample of university students in Istanbul, Turkey. Three hundred and sixty-seven students who owned smartphones were given the Smartphone Addiction Scale (SAS), UCLA Loneliness Scale (UCLA-LS), and Brief Social Phobia Scale (BSPS). A significant difference was found in the mean SAS scores (p

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  • Asli Enez Darcin & Samet Kose & Cemal Onur Noyan & Serdar Nurmedov & Onat Yılmaz & Nesrin Dilbaz, 2016. "Smartphone addiction and its relationship with social anxiety and loneliness," Behaviour and Information Technology, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 35(7), pages 520-525, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:tbitxx:v:35:y:2016:i:7:p:520-525
    DOI: 10.1080/0144929X.2016.1158319
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    1. Zhao, Chengjia & Du, Mingxuan & Yu, Yanqiu & Honglei Chen, Juliet & Man-Sze Wu, Anise & Du, Dajin & Baofeng Wang, Debora & Lau, Joseph T.F. & Yu, Guoliang & Zhang, Guohua, 2024. "The roles of classmate support, smartphone addiction, and leisure time in the longitudinal relationship between academic pressure and social anxiety among Chinese adolescents in the context of the “do," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 160(C).

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