Cutting the Wireless Cord: College Student Cell Phone Use and Attachment to Parents

Abstract

To better understand the dynamics of cell phone use among a sample of college students and their attachment for their parents, our study investigated the attitudes toward cell phone use, distinguishing patterns of cell phone users, and user group and gender differences related to attachment to parents among college students. Findings of this study point to implications for further research in three areas: cell phone use and adoption of special functions, family studies, and measurement improvement.

KEYWORDS:

• attachment
• cell phone
• college students

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We thank the anonymous reviewers for their insightful comments on this article. We are also deeply grateful to Drs. Scott Marley and Gary Ockey for their suggestions regarding the statistics being used in this article.

Notes

Note. Means with different superscripts significantly differ from one another at p < .05 using Tukey's HSD post-hoc test.

Note. Means with different superscripts significantly differ from one another at p < .05 using Tukey's HSD post-hoc test.

Note. Means with different superscripts significantly differ from one another at p < .05 using Tukey's HSD post-hoc test.