TITLE:
Relationships of loneliness and mobile phone dependence with Internet addiction in Japanese medical students
AUTHORS:
Satoko Ezoe, Masahiro Toda
KEYWORDS:
Internet Addiction; Mobile Phone Dependence; Loneliness; Depression; Medical Students
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Preventive Medicine,
Vol.3 No.6,
August
29,
2013
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.