Depression, anxiety, and smartphone addiction in university students- A cross sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The study aims to assess prevalence of smartphone addiction symptoms, and to ascertain whether depression or anxiety, independently, contributes to smartphone addiction level among a sample of Lebanese university students, while adjusting simultaneously for important sociodemographic, academic, lifestyle, personality trait, and smartphone-related variables.

Methods

A random sample of 688 undergraduate university students (mean age = 20.64 ±1.88 years; 53% men) completed a survey composed of a) questions about socio-demographics, academics, lifestyle behaviors, personality type, and smartphone use-related variables; b) 26-item Smartphone Addiction Inventory (SPAI) Scale; and c) brief screeners of depression and anxiety (PHQ-2 and GAD-2), which constitute the two co

SUBMITTER: Matar Boumosleh J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5544206 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature