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Use of Mobile Phone Text Message and Personality among Japanese University Students

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Abstract

To evaluate the personality correlates of mobile phone text message use in Japanese youth, university students (N = 232) were distributed a set questionnaires containing the Temperament and Character Inventory and items enquiring their text message use. Greater text messaging was associated with high Novelty Seeking (NS). The results of this study suggest that text message was based on NS.

Published in Psychology and Behavioral Sciences (Volume 2, Issue 5)
DOI 10.11648/j.pbs.20130205.14
Page(s) 192-195
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Keywords

Mobile Phone Text-Messaging, Temperament, Character

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Author Information
  • Department of Clinical Behavioural Sciences (Psychological Medicine), Kumamoto University Graduate School of Biosciences, 1-1-1 Honjo, Kumamoto, Japan

  • Research Center of Applied Psychology, Chengdu Medical College, Chengdu, China

  • Department of Bioethics, Kumamoto University Graduate School of Biosciences, 1-1-1 Honjo, Kumamoto, Japan

  • Kyushu University of Nursing and Social Welfare, Tamana, Japan

  • Department of Public Health, Faculty of Life Sciences, Kumamoto University, 1-1-1 Honjo, Kumamoto, Japan

  • Kitamura Institute of Mental Health Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

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