Journal of Depression and Anxiety
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Impact of Smartphones use on Mental Health in Adolescence

Sehar Shoukat^{* *}Correspondence: Dr. Sehar Shoukat, Department of Psychology, California Institute of Behavioral Neurosciences and Psychology, Mangels Boulevard, Fairfield, USA, Email:

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Research has been done on smartphone usage and its impact on all adolescents from so many years But the increasing trend of cell phone addiction and poor psychological and physiological health of adolescents have been increasing dayby- day. Many studies have been done using different human behavior as dependent and independent variable. Some researcher examined adolescent's physical health or educational performance with smartphone addiction and others analyzed psychological behavior and social relationship with mobile phone addiction. In these articles, some of the latest studies were overviewed. The rapid advancement in technology has made many gadgets; a smartphone is one of them. People spend their time more likely on social media, do business e-mails, academic search, finding answers to questions, and playing games. Almost 95 percent of population own cell phones and 77 percent own smartphones. Around the world, smartphones were used by 1.85 billion people in 2014 which is expected to be 2.32 billion in 2017 and 2.87 billion in 2020. Too much dependency makes us “Mobile addictive”. Mobile phones make our lives easier, but on the other hand, it ties us. Mobile addiction has effects but also psychological and academics effect at the same time. Sleep deficit, anxiety, stress, and depression which are all associated with internet abuse, have been related to mobile phone usage too, When a person uses his/ her cell phone most of the time, unable to cut back on cell phone usage, using cell phones as a solution to boredom, anxiety or depression when your phone is out of your range. Research says “when cell phone use becomes an addiction, the behavior becomes stressful”. Excessive use of smartphone paired with negative attitude and feeling of anxiety and dependency on gadgets may increase the risk of anxiety and depression. The survey showed that there were negative psychological effects of smartphone usage on the young generation. They felt depressed and anxious while using cell phones. On the other hand, some youngsters showed relax behaviour even without having a cell phone. They concluded that high cell phone usage was associated with sleep deprivation and symptoms of depression for both men and women.

An internet based Malaysian people expressed that more cell phone utilization might prompt physiological and mental confusions when it was led on 409 respondents. Descriptive research proposed that web fixation is like illicit drug use aside from social dependence (web compulsion) doesn't include a substance. In addition, the actual side effects are missing in conduct enslavement, however in the event that web habit proceeds; it will go through similar outcomes as liquor dependence. As per the most recent investigations, it is realized that there are two ways of thinking. A few analysts accept that there is a positive relationship between cell phone compulsion and the emotional wellness of pre-adulthood and some accept that there is a pessimistic or roundabout connection between them. It is affirmed that young adult's psychological wellness and actual wellbeing are related with cell phone fixation (addiction). In any case, we can't say it with 100% precision that cell phone is the main source of poor mental or physiological medical problems in youths. Investigated articles of this study have shown double outcomes. The outcome comes in two distinct schools of contemplation. One assessment underscores that cell enslavement (addiction) and mental wellbeing have a direct connection. Cell phone use seriously influences the psychological well-being of youths and they look restless, discouraged and angry or sometimes commit suicide. The selfdestructive rate (suicidal rate) is expanding in this time. A few examinations likewise showed a positive connection of mobile phone enslavement and physiological wellbeing.

Cell phone addiction has no immediate connection to emotional well-being. In the wake of looking into these outcomes, it is reasoned that there is a connection between mobile phone habit and people's psychological or actual wellbeing whether they have immediate or circuitous connection. We can't disregard the connection and its unfriendly consequences for teenagers. It is proposed that more examinations should be done in such manner to explain their inclination of relations.