Exploring the relationships between college students’ cell phone use, personality and leisure

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Highlights:

• Cluster analysis identified three distinct and valid groups of cell phone users.

• Groups identified: High User (HU), Low Use Extrovert (LUE), Low Use Introvert (LUI).

• Leisure experience (boredom, challenge, awareness, distress) compared across groups.

• LUE: highest preference for challenge, most aware, least susceptible to boredom.

• HU: more susceptible to boredom, experienced the most distress.

摘要

•Cluster analysis identified three distinct and valid groups of cell phone users.•Groups identified: High User (HU), Low Use Extrovert (LUE), Low Use Introvert (LUI).•Leisure experience (boredom, challenge, awareness, distress) compared across groups.•LUE: highest preference for challenge, most aware, least susceptible to boredom.•HU: more susceptible to boredom, experienced the most distress.

论文关键词:Mobile phone,Smartphone,Leisure,Personality,Boredom,Anxiety

论文评审过程:Available online 22 November 2014.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2014.11.006