Mobile Phone Use and Stress-Coping Strategies of Medical Students

Masahiro Toda, Satoko Ezoe and Tatsuya Takeshita
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Masahiro Toda: Department of Public Health, Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama, Japan
Satoko Ezoe: Health Service Center Izumo, Shimane University, Shimane, Japan
Tatsuya Takeshita: Department of Public Health, Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama, Japan

International Journal of Cyber Behavior, Psychology and Learning (IJCBPL), 2014, vol. 4, issue 4, 41-46

Abstract: This paper investigates associations between mobile phone use and stress coping. To 139 medical university students, a set of self-reporting questionnaires designed to evaluate mobile-phone use and stress coping was administered. In relation to the intensity of mobile phone use, the low-dependence group had statistically significantly higher scores for coping strategy, planful problem solving, than the high-dependence group. When the respondents were allocated to one of three groups according to which mobile-phone service they use most frequently, scores for planful problem solving were statistically significantly higher in the voice phone group than in the Web-browsing group. These findings suggest that the intensity and type of mobile phone use may be associated with stress coping, particularly planful problem solving strategy.

Date: 2014
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