scholarly journals A Comparative Study of the Relationship Between Mobile Phone Use and Social Capital Among College Students in Shanghai and Taipei

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yi-Ning Chen ◽  
Ven-Hwei Lo ◽  
Ran Wei ◽  
Xiaoge Xu ◽  
Guoliang Zhang
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Social Capital ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Mobile Phone Use ◽  
The Relationship

The effects of shyness and loneliness on cell phone dependence in college students

2021 ◽  
Vol 49 (9) ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Yan Chen
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Cell Phone ◽  
Short Form ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Loneliness Scale ◽  
Mobile Phone Addiction ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Shed Light

I explored the relationships among shyness, loneliness, and cell phone dependence (CPD) in college students, with a special focus on the mediating effect of loneliness in the relationship between shyness and CPD. Participants were 593 students recruited from a college in Henan, China, and they completed the Cheek and Buss Shyness Scale, the UCLA Loneliness Scale–Short Form, and the Mobile Phone Addiction Index. The results show that shyness was significantly correlated with both loneliness and CPD, and that loneliness partially mediated the effect of shyness on CPD. These findings shed light on how shyness predicts CPD and have implications for preventing CPD in college students.

Cyber Behavior and Social Capital

2012 ◽  
pp. 1063-1073
Author(s):  
Tetsuro Kobayashi
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Social Networks ◽  
Civic Engagement ◽  
Intellectual History ◽  
Technology Use ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Social Trust ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Mobile Phone Use ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter reviews historical development of research on cyber behavior and social capital, based on the definition by Robert D. Putnam, by focusing on the relationship between Information Communication and Technology use with social networks, civic engagement, as well as social trust. Firstly, the intellectual history of studies on cyber behavior and social capital is reviewed. Secondly, important past studies on the relationship between ICT use and social capital are focused from four perspectives: social networks, civic engagement, local community, and mobile phone use. Finally, future research directions are discussed from the perspective of comparative culture and rapidly evolving high-functionality smart phones.

Motivations

2021 ◽  
pp. 38-59
Author(s):  
Ran Wei ◽  
Ven-hwei Lo
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Motivational Factors ◽  
Media Choice ◽  
User Needs ◽  
Mobile Phone Use ◽  
News Consumption ◽  
Asian College Students

News consumption requires motivation. This chapter aims to understand user needs and expectancies as motivational factors behind the consumption of mobile news. The three identified motivations of mobile phone use—sociability, entertainment, and surveillance—reveal the underlying reasoning of Asian college students about the mobile phone as an all-in-one media choice that is essential to socialize, entertain, and stay informed. Moreover, surveillance as a civic motivation is positively related to expectancies of mobile news as being interactive and personally valuable. These motivations sought from mobile phone use and usability attributes of mobile news, both civic and practical, manifest the desire of Asian college students to access news on their phones for intentional and active consumption.

Relationships of personality and lifestyle with mobile phone dependence among female nursing students

2009 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 231-238 ◽  
Author(s):  
Satoko Ezoe ◽  
Masahiro Toda ◽  
Kimio Yoshimura ◽  
Aki Naritomi ◽  
Rei Den ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Nursing School ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Female College Students ◽  
Unhealthy Lifestyle ◽  
Mobile Phone Use ◽  
Female College

To clarify the relationships of personality and lifestyle with mobile phone dependence, defined as an intermittent craving to use a mobile phone or excessive mobile phone use, we administered a self-report questionnaire to 132 female college students attending a nursing school in Osaka, Japan. Results of multiple regression analysis indicated that scores for extroversion and neuroticism were positively related to the score of the Mobile Phone Dependence Questionnaire (MPDQ; Toda, Monden, Kubo, & Morimoto, 2004), while the score for healthy practices was negatively related to that of the MPDQ. These findings suggest that mobile phone dependence in female college students is associated with elevated traits of extroversion and neuroticism, as well as an unhealthy lifestyle.

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