LONELINESS DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC: ITS EFFECT ON THE TREND TOWARDS SMARTPHONE ADDICTION IN EARLY ADULTHOOD WHO WORKS FROM HOME

Amelia Rahayu () and Tia Rahmania
Additional contact information
Amelia Rahayu: Mid-Western University, Birendranagar, Surkhet
Tia Rahmania: Department of Psychology, Paramadina University, Indonesia

Social Values & Society (SVS), 2022, vol. 4, issue 1, 1-2

Abstract: During the Covid-19 Pandemic, social restriction is one of the policies that the government enforces in suppressing the spread of Covid-19 cases. Thus, social life is drastically reduced. People who usually spend half of their time working at the office feel a significant difference. As a result of preliminary study, since the implementation of WFH, 60% of employees in X Inc. complained of getting lonely because they no longer have a fun social life. This study is a quantitative research that aims to determine the effect of loneliness on smartphone addiction in early adulthood who do the WFH during Covid-19 pandemic at X Inc. Data were collected via online questionnaires in two steps. The first one is pilot study (preliminary study), held in May 2021 (N=30; 56% women; age 20–27 years) and the field study held in June 2021 (N=56; 58% women; age 20–40 years). The data is being analyzed by simple linear regression. The data shows that the effect of loneliness on the tendency of smartphone addiction is 46.1%.

Keywords: Loneliness; Smartphone Addiction; Work From Home (WFH) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://socvsoc.com/archive1/1svs2022/1svs2022-01-02.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:zib:zbnsvs:v:4:y:2022:i:1:p:01-02

DOI: 10.26480/svs.01.2021.01.02

Access Statistics for this article

Social Values & Society (SVS) is currently edited by Prof. Dr. Gunjan Jain

More articles in Social Values & Society (SVS) from Zibeline International Publishing
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Zibeline International Publishing ( this e-mail address is bad, please contact ).