Proceedings of the 4th ASEAN Conference on Psychology, Counselling, and Humanities (ACPCH 2018)

Smartphone Addiction and Loneliness in Adolescent

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Diana Savitri Hidayati
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Diana Savitri Hidayati
Available Online March 2019.
DOI
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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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 4th ASEAN Conference on Psychology, Counselling, and Humanities (ACPCH 2018)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
March 2019
ISBN
978-94-6252-688-4
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/acpch-18.2019.84How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
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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