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- Title
Mobile phone addiction in Tibetan and Han Chinese adolescents.
- Authors
Lu, Li; Xu, Dan‐Dan; Liu, Huan‐Zhong; Zhang, Ling; Ng, Chee H.; Ungvari, Gabor S.; Wu, Weng Tong; Xiang, Yi‐Fan; An, Feng‐Rong; Xiang, Yu‐Tao
- Abstract
Purpose: To compare mobile phone addiction (MPA) patterns between Tibetan and Han adolescents in China. Design and Methods: The study was carried out in two provinces of China. The Mobile Phone Addiction Scale (MPAS) was used to assess MPA. Findings: Seven hundred and five Tibetan and 606 Han students participated in the study. The MPAS total score was 24.4 ± 11.4 in the whole sample; 27.3 ± 10.8 and 20.9 ± 11.2 in Tibetan and Han students, respectively. Quality of life (QOL) in the physical, psychological, social, and environmental domains was negatively associated with MPA. Practice Implications: Compared with Han students, Tibetan students were found to have more severe MPA. Given its negative impact on QOL, appropriate measures for the prevention of MPA should be developed, particularly for Tibetan middle school students.
- Subjects
CHINA; CELL phones; KRUSKAL-Wallis Test; STATISTICS; MIDDLE school students; MULTIVARIATE analysis; MULTIPLE regression analysis; MANN Whitney U Test; REGRESSION analysis; SOCIOECONOMIC factors; T-test (Statistics); QUALITY of life; CHI-squared test; STATISTICAL hypothesis testing; RESEARCH funding; QUESTIONNAIRES; STATISTICAL sampling; DATA analysis software
- Publication
Perspectives in Psychiatric Care, 2019, Vol 55, Issue 3, p438
- ISSN
0031-5990
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/ppc.12336