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

Table 3 Correlation between age and some variables related to mobile use with cell phone addiction and loneliness as well as their dimensions

	Duration of mobile usage (year)		Number of daily calls		Daily call duration (min)		Number of daily SMS		Age
	p	r^a	p	r	p	r	p	r	p	r
Withdrawal/tolerance	0.181	0.064	0.351	0.044	< 0.001	0.211	0.025	0.107	0.033	0.102
Life dysfunction	0.296	0.050	0.458	0.035	< 0.001	0.213	0.052	0.093	0.005	0.135
Compulsion/persistence	0.206	0.060	0.773	− 0.014	< 0.001	0.227	0.060	0.090	0.015	0.116
Cell phone addiction (total)	0.193	0.062	0.493	0.033	< 0.001	0.238	0.027	0.105	0.012	0.120
Dimensions of loneliness
Social	0.757	0.015	0.787	− 0.013	0.047	0.097	0.832	0.010	0.159	0.067
Family	0.121	0.074	0.404	0.040	0.124	0.073	0.046	0.095	0.618	0.024
Romantic	0.862	0.008	0.302	0.049	0.052	− 0.093	0.927	− 0.004	0.799	− 0.012
Loneliness (total)	0.151	0.068	0.264	0.053	0.208	0.060	0.111	0.076	0.275	0.052

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