MobileAddiction Sanjana1
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Mobile phones are requisites for many young adults, improved portability that increases the prevalence of
but such devices may negatively affect their mental mobile phone use, especially among young people.4
health and well-being. Rapid development in mobile
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phone technologies provides a rich selection of Mobile phones, especially smart phones, are being
features and improved portability that increases the increasingly used over recent years in both developed
prevalence of mobile phone use, especially among and developing countries .Despite offering great
young adults. They often develop attachment toward convenience, mobile phones can exert negative
mobile phones, seeking the proximity of mobile influences, induce extreme emotional changes and even
cause serious physiological reactions, giving rise to the
phones and experiencing distress on separation 1. A
-2 phenomenon popularly known as “mobile phone
multitude of studies have documented that mobile
phone addiction would bring about negative impacts addiction” 5.
on physical and mental health as well as social
adaption such as academic problems, interpersonal Mobile phone is considered a double-edged sword for
problems, health issues, depression, anxiety, and even young adults. On one hand, utilization of mobile phone
suicidal ideation2. In India alone, it is estimated that facilitates young people to increase their social
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about 530 million smart phone users will be active by communication frequency, improve their relationships
the end of 2018 3. The worldwide mobile phone and make new friends. On the other hand, improper use
addiction related issues are growing at an alarming of mobile phone influences young people negatively.
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pace. Such issues need immediate addressing. In this Specifically, improper mobile phone use can reduce
paper, various symptoms, impacts and causes of individual’s concentration and the amount of
mobile phone addiction is summarized. Various information received during a typical class, block face-
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journals dealing with similar issues are reviewed in to-face communication, and even lead to mental or
this paper. physical stress. It is estimated that prevalence of mobile
phone addicts ranges from 0% to 38% of mobile phone
users across cultures and societies, suggesting at least
Keywords- Mobile Phone Addiction, depression, stress, 62% of mobile phone users are with possible
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irreplaceable position of a phone in our daily life. MPA
without their cell phone9. According to their survey,
is a behavioral form of addiction just like any other, but
when asked about the primary usage of their cell phone,
different from substance addiction.
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Texting was mentioned by 83.1 % as most used feature,
According to a report by New York Times (2017) 7, both
followed by calling at 10.8% and Social apps at 6.1%.
adults and teens check their mobile phones 150 times a
day, that is every 6 minutes and send an average of 110
Another journal study investigated indicators of smart
texts per day. A recent Huffington post article reported
phone use, smart phone addiction, and their associations
the following statistics 8:
with demographic and health behavior-related variables
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92 percent of teens go online daily, and
students from 127 Swiss vocational school classes.10
24 percent say they are online “almost
constantly.”
76 percent of teens use social media (81
percent of older teens, 68 percent of teens
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Snap chat, 33 percent use Twitter. Table 1: Average hours of mobile phone usage per day
77 percent of parents say their teens get
distracted by their devices and don’t pay
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constant attempts.
Loss of time sense due to usage.
Constant need to check notifications, text
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messages etc.
Ignoring face to face conversations and looking
into digital displays when conversing to
someone.
-2 Feeling nervous, moody and anxious when
abstained from usage.
On analyzing the above data, people spend around 2- Constant urge to use mobile phone when
3hrs on social networking feature of a smart phone, driving, riding, crossing road etc.
which is the maximum duration of use on a daily basis,
Respond to texts, calls even if the environment
followed by music, phone calls and texting10. This
accounts to 80% of all the time spent on usage. If this is unfavorable to receive/text a reply.
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Their survey showed the following results: Male infertility due to RF radiation damages
retarding spermatogenesis in the male
reporductive system.12.
Brain related problems such as tumors, seizures
due to harmful radiation13.
Obesity.
Distraction.
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reference to few journals, some of the main reasons are
listed below:
Constant urge to explore and experience new
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things, leading to excessive use of newer
technologies.
Seek validation and agreement on a social
platform such as Facebook, Instagram, etc.
-2 To develop new connections/friendship with
people on social platforms: One of the main
reasons for youngsters to seek to social
networking sites is the hope to explore and
expand their friends circle. Hence this tends to
form into an addiction.
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colleges, in urban settings,in our country(India), do they tend to become ones extended self.
suffer from symptoms of both mental and physical
The way smartphone applications are designed,
nature due to overuse of mobile devices.
Some more serious long term issues that require has a strong effect on human brain. They are
immediate attention are: designed to attract users, and increase the
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Delete unnecessary applications and the ones These features may be a boon, but with inappropriate
that tend to be addictive. limit of usage, they turn out to be a bane.
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Schedule a time slot to limit your usage to The researches done do not aim to identify the effects of
within this span. individual applications on the level of addiction. It also
Stop replacing phones as means of fails to weigh the effect of personal commitments (i.e.
entertainment. need to keep constant check on committed work/family)
Develop productive habits to combat loneliness. that lead to excessive usage of a mobile phone, leading
Seek advice, guidance and help in difficult
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situations. The researches do not highlight the realistic effect of
Explore new avenues in life; seek physical MPA on one’s Daily Productivity. The causes of
presence of friends and family. addiction are fairly general and vary from person to
Develop new working hours and accommodate person. The impacts are also person dependent. The
various tasks strategically to prevent long hours study identified that 15.4% of users are at a huge risk of
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but dangerous disease that’s creeping into our daily adults: the mediating role of interpersonal problems”, ©
lives. Everyone associated with a victim are responsible 2015 elsevier ltd. all rights reserved.
to extend support to them, to combat addiction. [6] Jayanti p Acharya, Indranil Acharya and Divyavijay
(2013), a study on some of the common health effects of
cell-phones amongst college students, community
4.0 CONCLUSION medicine & health education.vol-3
[7]https://www.elephantjournal.com/2017/08/cellphone-
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that’s affecting many phone users these days. The advice/
purpose of a phone since its invention has changed a lot [8]tps://www.huffingtonpost.com/judith-johnson/teens-
and the now cellular devices that we call smart phones addicted-to-social-_b_9696378.html
are widely hailed as one of the best inventions of this [9] Tessa Jones*, “students’ cell phone addiction and
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technology into every activity of our life, we become university, vol 5, spring 2014.
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use and smartphone addiction among young people in
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addiction. Once MPA has taken over the psychological
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side and as mankind, we need to learn to adapt and deal [11] Joseâ de-sola1, Hernaân, Fernando rodrõâguez de
with these issues more effectively and efficiently. The fonseca1,3*, gabriel rubio4*,(2017), “prevalence of
purpose of this study was to compare few journals and problematic cell phone use in an adult population in
analyze the content. By this study, the authors threw spain as assessed by he mobile phone problem use scale
light on some drawbacks of these papers. The gap (mppus)”&ishfaq ahmed1*, tehminafiaz qazi2 and
khadijaaijaz perji2,(2011), “mobile phone to youngsters:
between the research subjects and the current subjects of
research were understood. The need for changing
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approaches to address MPA is highly commendable. 1993-8233©2011 academic journals.
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cooperation of various bodies of people such as on/risk/radiation/cell-phones-fact-sheet
educational institutions, Government, Workplace etc. [13]https://thenextweb.com/dd/2014/10/28/10ingredients
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