Smartphone Use and Loneliness Among Female University Students: The Impact of Having or Not Having a Boyfriend

Masahiro Toda and Arisa Takagi
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Masahiro Toda: Notre Dame Seishin University, Japan
Arisa Takagi: Notre Dame Seishin University, Japan

International Journal of Cyber Behavior, Psychology and Learning (IJCBPL), 2025, vol. 15, issue 1, 1-9

Abstract: Administering a set of self-reporting questionnaires to 169 people who identify as female university students, this study investigated associations between smartphone-dependence scores and scores for loneliness and trait anxiety. Loneliness and trait-anxiety scores correlated with scores for smartphone dependence only for respondents who did not have a boyfriend: No similar association was apparent for those who had a boyfriend. These findings suggest that having or not having a boyfriend is a factor both in smartphone dependence and in loneliness and trait anxiety.

Date: 2025
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