Abstract
This study examined how cell-phone use is related to interpersonal motives for using cell phones, face-to-face communication, and loneliness. A survey of 232 college students who owned a cell phone revealed that affection and inclusion were relatively strong motivations for using voice calls and text messaging, and that interpersonal motives were positively related to the amount of cell-phone use, including calling and texting. The amount of face-to-face interaction was positively associated with the participants' cell-phone use and their interpersonal motives for using cell phones: the more the participants engaged in face-to-face interaction with other people, the higher their motives were and the more frequent cell-phone use was. Loneliness did not have a direct relation to cell-phone use. Instead, the participants with higher levels of loneliness were less likely to engage in face-to-face social interaction, which led them to use cell phones less and to be less motivated to use cell phones for interpersonal purposes.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 611-618 |
Number of pages | 8 |
Journal | Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking |
Volume | 13 |
Issue number | 6 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2010 Dec 1 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Social Psychology
- Communication
- Applied Psychology
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Computer Science Applications