Smartphone Addiction and Loneliness in Adolescent

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10.2991/acpch-18.2019.84How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Smartphone addiction, loneliness

Abstract

Adolescent nowadays spent most of their time online in the internet or used their smartphone. In consequence, they spent less of their time interact with their friends. It can cause a decreasing number of friends and made them experienced loneliness. Loneliness is a subjective unpleasant experience caused by the degradation of quality and quantity in social relation. Therefore this study aimed to see a correlation between smartphone addiction and loneliness in adolescent. Participants of this study are 356 freshman years students of University of Muhammadiyah Malang, aged 18-22. Data gathered using Smartphone Addiction Scale (SAS) and R-UCLA Loneliness Scale. Result showed, there is a positive correlation between smartphone addiction and loneliness in adolescent (r=0.227; p=0.000).

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Diana Savitri Hidayati
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TI  - Smartphone Addiction and Loneliness in Adolescent
BT  - Proceedings of the 4th ASEAN Conference on Psychology, Counselling, and Humanities (ACPCH 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 345
EP  - 350
SN  - 2352-5398
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