The Relationship of Smartphone Addiction and Alexithymia

This study aims to evaluate whether smartphone addiction (SA) is associated with social media use and alexithymia levels in university students. A group of 935 students aged between 18 and 45 years (509 females and 426 males) was recruited from different universities in Istanbul. SAs, alexithymia an...

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Published in:Psychiatry investigation 2021, 18(9), , pp.841-849
Main Authors: Gündoğmuş, İbrahim, Aydın, Mehmet Sinan, Algül, Ayhan
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Language:English
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Summary:This study aims to evaluate whether smartphone addiction (SA) is associated with social media use and alexithymia levels in university students. A group of 935 students aged between 18 and 45 years (509 females and 426 males) was recruited from different universities in Istanbul. SAs, alexithymia and social media use were assessed using the Smartphone Addiction Scale Short Version (SAS-SV), Toronto Alexithymia Scale-20 (TAS-20), and ad-hoc questions regarding social media use. The mean age of participants was 21.89±3.27 years and 509 of participants were female (54.4%). 455 (48.6%) participants were placed in the "SA" and 198 (21.2%) in the "alexithymia" categories. The study found a high level of positive correlation (p
ISSN:1738-3684
1976-3026
DOI:10.30773/PI.2021.0072