A model of the relationship between psychological characteristics, mobile phone addiction and use of mobile phones by Taiwanese university female students

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 2152-2159

  Hong, Fu Yuan ^a   Chiu, Shao I ^a   Huang, Der Hsiang ^b  

^a Taipei College of Maritime Technology   (Taiwan)

^b DA YEH UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Mobile phone addiction; Mobile phone usage behavior; Personality; Self esteem; Social extraversion

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; FEMALE STUDENTS; PERSONALITY; PHONE CALLS; PSYCHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS; SELF-ESTEEM; SOCIAL EXTRAVERSION; TEXT MESSAGES; UNIVERSITY STUDENTS;

MOBILE DEVICES; MOBILE PHONES; STUDENTS; TELEPHONE SYSTEMS;

CELLULAR TELEPHONES;

EID: 84865660978     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2012.06.020     Document Type: Article

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