College students' cell phone use and attachment to parents and peers

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 64, Issue , 2016, Pages 401-408

  Lepp, Andrew ^a   Li, Jian ^a   Barkley, Jacob E ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Mobile phone; Parent attachment; Peer attachment; Smartphone; Social relations

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR TELEPHONES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STUDENTS; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; TELEPHONE SETS;

COLLEGE STUDENTS; CONTROL VARIABLE; PARENT ATTACHMENT; PEER ATTACHMENT; PREDICTOR VARIABLES; REGRESSION EQUATION; SEEMINGLY UNRELATED REGRESSION; SOCIAL RELATIONS;

MOBILE PHONES;

ALIENATION; ANXIETY; COLLEGE STUDENT; CRITERION VARIABLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERCEPTION; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; SELF ESTEEM; SMARTPHONE; SOCIAL INTERACTION; TEXT MESSAGING; TRUST;

EID: 84979034994     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2016.07.021     Document Type: Article

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