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Smartphone Use and Loneliness Among Female University Students: The Impact of Having or Not Having a Boyfriend

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  • Masahiro Toda

    (Notre Dame Seishin University, Japan)

  • Arisa Takagi

    (Notre Dame Seishin University, Japan)

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Administering a set of self-reporting questionnaires to 169 people who identify as female university students, this study investigated associations between smartphone-dependence scores and scores for loneliness and trait anxiety. Loneliness and trait-anxiety scores correlated with scores for smartphone dependence only for respondents who did not have a boyfriend: No similar association was apparent for those who had a boyfriend. These findings suggest that having or not having a boyfriend is a factor both in smartphone dependence and in loneliness and trait anxiety.

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  • Masahiro Toda & Arisa Takagi, 2025. "Smartphone Use and Loneliness Among Female University Students: The Impact of Having or Not Having a Boyfriend," International Journal of Cyber Behavior, Psychology and Learning (IJCBPL), IGI Global, vol. 15(1), pages 1-9, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:igg:jcbpl0:v:15:y:2025:i:1:p:1-9
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