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Mobile Phone Use and Stress-Coping Strategies of Medical Students

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  • Masahiro Toda

    (Department of Public Health, Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama, Japan)

  • Satoko Ezoe

    (Health Service Center Izumo, Shimane University, Shimane, Japan)

  • Tatsuya Takeshita

    (Department of Public Health, Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama, Japan)

Abstract

This paper investigates associations between mobile phone use and stress coping. To 139 medical university students, a set of self-reporting questionnaires designed to evaluate mobile-phone use and stress coping was administered. In relation to the intensity of mobile phone use, the low-dependence group had statistically significantly higher scores for coping strategy, planful problem solving, than the high-dependence group. When the respondents were allocated to one of three groups according to which mobile-phone service they use most frequently, scores for planful problem solving were statistically significantly higher in the voice phone group than in the Web-browsing group. These findings suggest that the intensity and type of mobile phone use may be associated with stress coping, particularly planful problem solving strategy.

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  • Masahiro Toda & Satoko Ezoe & Tatsuya Takeshita, 2014. "Mobile Phone Use and Stress-Coping Strategies of Medical Students," International Journal of Cyber Behavior, Psychology and Learning (IJCBPL), IGI Global, vol. 4(4), pages 41-46, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:igg:jcbpl0:v:4:y:2014:i:4:p:41-46
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