How smartphone usage correlates with social anxiety and loneliness.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Early detection of social anxiety and loneliness might be useful to prevent substantial impairment in personal relationships. Understanding the way people use smartphones can be beneficial for implementing an early detection of social anxiety and loneliness. This paper examines different types of smartphone usage and their relationships with people with different individual levels of social anxiety or loneliness.

Methods

A total of 127 Android smartphone volunteers participated in this study, all of which have agreed to install an application (MobileSens) on their smartphones, which can record user's smartphone usage behaviors and upload the data into the server. They were instructed to complete an online survey, including the Interaction Anxiousness Scale (IAS)

SUBMITTER: Gao Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4950540 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature