Associations between smartphone addiction scale and sociopsychological aspects in medical school students
| Autor: | Hye In Kim, Hwa Jeong Kang, Keun-Mi Lee, Seong Hi Cheon, Seung Pil Jung |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Smartphone addiction
Addiction media_common.quotation_subject education Medical school Loneliness Positive perception 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Scale (social sciences) medicine Anxiety Residence 030212 general & internal medicine medicine.symptom Psychology 030217 neurology & neurosurgery media_common Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Yeungnam University Journal of Medicine. 34:55-61 |
| ISSN: | 2384-0293 |
| Popis: | Background: Smartphone addiction, academic stress and anxiety of university students are increasing gradually; however, few studies have investigated these factors in medical school students. Therefore, this study investigated associations between smartphone addiction scale and sociopsychological aspects in medical school students. Methods: A total of 231 Yeungnam University College of Medicine students were enrolled in this study in March 2017. Gender, school grade, type of residence, and smartphone usage patterns of the students were surveyed. The Korean Smartphone Addiction Proneness Scale and each Korean version scale were used to assess sociopsychological aspects such as loneliness, stress and anxiety. Results: There was a direct statistical correlation between loneliness, stress of negative perception, anxiety and smartphone addiction scales. There was also a negative statistical correlation between stress of positive perception and smartphone addiction scales. There was a higher level of anxiety among female students than male students. Additionally, there was a higher level of stress associated with negative perception and anxiety among medical students in the first grade than other students. Moreover there was a higher level of loneliness, stress of negative perception and anxiety among students who live with friends than students who live with their own family. Conclusion: Smartphone addiction scale and sociopsychological aspects significantly correlated. Moreover, the results suggest that female medical students in the first grade who have been separated from their family need more attention and management of loneliness, stress and anxiety to avoid smartphone addiction. |
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