Mobile phone dependence and health-related lifestyle of university students

By M. Toda, K. Monden, Kazuki Kubo, K. Morimoto. 2006

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In this study we investigated the associations between the intensity of mobile phone use and health-related lifestyle. For 275 university students, we evaluated health-related lifestyle using the Health Practice Index (HPI; Hagihara & Morimoto, 1991; Kusaka, Kondou, & Morimoto, 1992) and analyzed responses to a questionnaire (MPDQ; Toda, Monden, Kubo, & Morimoto, 2004) designed, with a self-rating scale, to gauge mobile phone dependence. For males, there was a significant relationship between smoking habits and mobile phone dependence. We also found that male respondents with low HPI scores were significantly higher for mobile phone dependence. These findings suggest that, particularly for males, the intensity of mobile phone use may be related to healthy lifestyle.

Subfields: Communication, Education, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Social networking on smartphones: When mobile phones become addictive (2013, background): “Although previous studies showed that women are more dependent on internet services (Toda et al., 2006) and are more likely to become addicted to mobile phones (Jenaro et al.”
• Mobile-phone addiction in adolescence : The Test of Mobile Phone Dependence ( TMD ) (2012, methodology): “A third study was conducted with 347 adolescents (51.6% girls and 48.2% boys) to evaluate the construct validity of the questionnaire by correlating it with the Mobile Phone Dependence Questionnaire (MPDQ) [22].”
• Cell-Phone Addiction: A Review (2016, background): “Female cell-phone use is typically related to sociability (2), interpersonal relationships and the creation, and maintenance of contacts and indirect communication, and texting and instant messaging are their most frequently used applications (67, 122).”
• Prevalence of Nomophobia among University Students: A Comparative Study of Pakistani and Turkish Undergraduate Students (2018, background): “…have shown the existence and prevalence of nomophobia and its relationship between the other psychological structures (Oksman & Turtiainen, 2004; Toda et al., 2006: Chóliz, 2010; King et al., 2013; Sharma et al., 2015; Tavolacci et al., 2015; Yildirim et al., 2015; Adnan & Gezgin, 2016: Gezgin…”