The relationship between addiction to mobile phone and sense of loneliness among students of medical sciences in Kermanshah, Iran

Table 2 Relationship between dimensions of mobile phone addiction and loneliness

Dimensions of cell phone addiction	Dimensions of loneliness						Loneliness (total)
	Social		Family		Romantic		Loneliness (total)
	p	r^a	p	r	p	r	p	r
Withdrawal/tolerance	< 0.001	− 0.282	< 0.001	− 0.206	0.001	− 0.153	< 0.001	− 0.332
Life dysfunction	< 0.001	− 0.304	< 0.001	− 0.226	< 0.001	− 0.190	< 0.001	− 0.360
Compulsion/persistence	< 0.001	− 0.151	0.273	− 0.052	0.551	− 0.029	0.005	− 0.133
Cell phone addiction (total)	< 0.001	− 0.282	< 0.001	− 0.196	0.001	− 0.152	< 0.001	− 0.324

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