Mobile phone placement during lectures and dependency on LINE and text messaging: Survey of students at a women's university in Japan

This study measured the dependency on text messaging of students in lectures at a women’s university in Japan, comparing students who placed their mobile phone on their desk during lectures with those who did not do so. Dependency was measured by using a text-message dependency scale. Dependency on LINE messaging was measured by the same scale with “text” replaced by “LINE” in each question. The results of the questionnaire survey showed a significant difference in “emotional reaction,” one of the three subscales of the scale used in the study, between students who placed their mobile phone on their desk and those who did not: the LINE messaging dependency score was higher among those who did. Also, in each subscale score and in the total of those scores, dependency on LINE messaging was significantly higher than dependency on text messaging for both students who placed their mobile phones on their desks during lectures and those who did not do so. Journal of Socio-Informatics Vol. 8 No. 1 Feb. 2016

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