IDENTIFYING HEALTH RISKS OF EXCESSIVEUSE OF SMARTPHONES IN ADOLESCENTS

Authors

  • Muhammad Mutasim Billah Tufail
  • Muhammad Shakeel
  • Raheel Farooqui

Keywords:

Risk identification, adolescent health, smartphones, and emerging health issues.

Abstract

It is less likely to be known about risk perception amongst parents who have their adolescents stay in front of smartphones. Our objective is to analyze the usage of smartphones among the young generation nowadays and identify health-related risks linked to them. The smartphone market is the biggest in the world; this cool thing is creating open-mindedness for the whole world and negatively impacting adolescents' minds. This new era's generation is rapidly converting into severe phobias, depressions, and neck-shoulder pain, which are not a good sign. Fifteen students' parents surveyed a private school Students aged between 15 to 17. The result shows that 70% of the students arephone addicted to the problem of anxiety, weak eyes, and carelessness.

References

Direito, A., Jiang, Y., Whittaker, R., & Maddison, R. (2015). Smartphone apps to improve fitness and increase physical activity among young people: protocol of the Apps for IMproving FITness (AIMFIT) randomized controlled trial. BMC public health, 15(1), 1-12.

Elhai, J. D., Dvorak, R. D., Levine, J. C., & Hall, B. J. (2017). Problematic smartphone use: A conceptual overview and systematic review of relations with anxiety and depression psychopathology. Journal of affective disorders, 207, 251-259.

Elhai, J. D., Levine, J. C., & Hall, B. J. (2019). The relationship between anxiety symptom severity and problematic smartphone use: A review of the literature and conceptual frameworks. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 62, 45-52.

Goedhart, G., Vrijheid, M., Wiart, J., Hours, M., Kromhout, H., Cardis, E., ... & Vermeulen, R. (2015).

Using software‐modified smartphones to validate self‐reported mobile phone use in young people: a pilot study. Bioelectromagnetics, 36(7), 538-543.

Haug, S., Castro, R. P., Kwon, M., Filler, A., Kowatsch, T., & Schaub, M. P. (2015). Smartphone use and smartphone addiction among young people in Switzerland. Journal of behavioral addictions, 4(4), 299-307.

Lemola, S., Perkinson-Gloor, N., Brand, S., Dewald-Kaufmann, J. F., & Grob, A. (2015). Adolescents' electronic media use at night, sleep disturbance, and depressive symptoms in the smartphone age. Journal of youth and adolescence, 44(2), 405-418.

Lin, T. T., & Chiang, Y. H. (2017). Investigating predictors of smartphone dependency symptoms and effects on academic performance, improper phone use and perceived sociability. International Journal of Mobile Communications, 15(6), 655-676.

Ng, K. C., Wu, L. H., Lam, H. Y., Lam, L. K., Nip, P. Y., Ng, C. M., ... & Leung, S. F. (2020). The

relationships between mobile phone use and depressive symptoms, bodily pain, and daytime sleepiness in Hong Kong secondary school students. Addictive behaviors, 101, 105975.

Rideout, V. (2017). The common sense census: Media use by kids age zero to eight (pp. 263–283). San Francisco, CA: Common Sense Media

Rideout, V. J. (2015). The common sense census: Media use by tweens and teens. San Francisco, CA: Common Sense Media Incorporated.

Suhag, A. K., Larik, R. S., Mangi, G. Z., Khan, M., Abbasi, S. K., & Madiha, H. (2016). Impact of excessive mobile phone usage on human. J Comput Sci Syst Biol, 9(06), 173-177.

Tegtmeier, P. (2018). A scoping review on smart mobile devices and physical strain. Work, 59(2), 273- 283.

Um, Y. J., Choi, Y. J., & Yoo, S. Y. (2019). Relationships between smartphone dependency and aggression among middle school students: Mediating and moderating effects of ego-resilience, parenting behaviour, and peer attachment. International journal of environmental research and public health, 16(19), 3534.

Xie, Y., Szeto, G. P., Dai, J., & Madeleine, P. (2016). A comparison of muscle activity in using touchscreen smartphone among young people with and without chronic neck–shoulder pain. Ergonomics, 59(1), 61-72.

Downloads

Published

2022-03-30

How to Cite

Tufail, M. M. B. ., Shakeel, M. ., & Farooqui, R. . (2022). IDENTIFYING HEALTH RISKS OF EXCESSIVEUSE OF SMARTPHONES IN ADOLESCENTS. The Journal of Contemporary Issues in Business and Government, 28(1), 52–58. Retrieved from https://cibgp.com/au/index.php/1323-6903/article/view/2284

Issue

Vol. 28 No. 1 (2022): The journal of contemporary issues in business and government

Section

Articles

License

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

You are free to:

  1. Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format for any purpose, even commercially.
  2. Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially.
  3. The licensor cannot revoke these freedoms as long as you follow the license terms.

Under the following terms:

  1. Attribution — You must give appropriate credit , provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made . You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
  2. No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.

Notices:

You do not have to comply with the license for elements of the material in the public domain or where your use is permitted by an applicable exception or limitation .

No warranties are given. The license may not give you all of the permissions necessary for your intended use. For example, other rights such as publicity, privacy, or moral rights may limit how you use the material.