Understanding Mobile Phone Usage

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Recently news came out in “brain in the news” unveiled the present status of youngsters in terms of their mobile usage. To the added depth of this topic, they included a series of recent studies related to mobile phones and concluded that youngsters are addicted to the phone to a great extent and most of the time they are dealing with social media rather than any other things through the phone. shockingly the suicidal behavior is getting higher among these in overtime users.

Mobile Phone Dependence Over The Years

1. Mobile Phone usage among youngsters became a matter of concern in terms of intense and uncontrolled use over the past decade. The main reason for this may be the attractive and intoxicating colorful features presented before them.

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2. During the 2008-2009 period, A study had conducted among college students in Mumbai and Kanpur to overview their pattern of mobile usage. The observation was that youngsters used cell phones for a variety of communication and recreation needs in the prime view. Moving closer to the ideal usage pattern uncovers that mobile phones go about as a demarcating tool for their personal life. Their interests were to build up relationships over the cell phone and maintain private conversations and most importantly they wanted to be out of the parental circle to prove themselves as an independent.

How mobile phone usage become an addictive behaviour over the period was another concern to think about.

3. The study in 2011 investigated the factors affecting mobile phone dependence and anxiety. They disclosed the findings as the higher the rate of usage of the phone, the more the chances it to be a habit. And the rate and the habit of usage over time have a momentous impact on addiction correspondingly.

4. A Study suggestive of frequent use of mobile phones is preferably related to social anxiety and this regularity in the usage pattern is a predictor of behavioral addiction to that particular object.

5. Another prime study has been put forward in the year of 2013, to identify which among the cell phone activity is responsible or leading to the addictive behavior for that they did an online survey of students and found that most of them were involved in texting and secondly social networking activities overtime suggestive of their desire to be socially connected with varying degrees in the gender.

6. Extensive use of technology can lead to addiction. The technologies now present varieties of social networking services before the community.

A study conducted in the year of 2013 declare that the use of social networking services through these portable devices are predictive of addiction towards it.

Creating a fascinating environment through this medium the person gets implanted to this environment and later progressively programmed to use this unconditionally and become dependent finally.

6. Addiction in terms of social networking was described again in a study conducted in Switzerland, predicting this could be the most leading cause bringing the adolescence to the level of addiction

8. The easy access of the internet everywhere can be the reason why adolescents engage in social networks like Facebook, emails etc over time.

9 Another view over th reason for this dependence can be Lack of parental supervisions or easy accessibility of the internet or enough past time for surfing the net can be the possible answers for why the students are having comparably high mobile phone dependency

10. A study was performed in the light of gender differences level of social status, daily usage duration, etc.. and found significant differences in mobile addiction in relation to the time expenditure over the phone monthly income, etc.

Mobile Phone And Adverse Effects

11. The condition called ‘Nomophobia’; unreasonable fear of being out of contact with a mobile phone is seen to be rising among the younger generation; indicative of explicit mobile phone reliance.

12 Certain findings advocate that mobile phone dependence is coupled with an unhealthy way of living.

13. The excess use of mobile phones always has adverse effects on health.

Over usage is often coupled with depression, anxiety and leads to sleep problems ultimately.

14. Electromagnetic radiation coming out of the phones can be the root cause for these health effects. Reported cases of memory problems, lack of concentration, sleep disturbances, etc have been identified again in another study conducted in 2014.

15. Thermal effects due to holding posture of mobile phones close to the body causes complaints of headache, sleep-wake problems, memory loss, poor attention, discomfort high blood pressure and even brain tumors too.

16. Nowadays the adolescents are more likely to use the phone during the night hours. But often these users are found to be tired during the daytime explored by a study conducted during the year of 2007

17Deprived psychological health, suicidal tendencies, and self-injury behavior are found to be growing among adolescent age groups who have the habit of using phones overnight time. There is also evidence for sleep problems among these users.

Mobile Phone And Sleep

18. Everyday usage of mobile phones made the younger students more evening-typed, their wake-up timing delayed and their sleep hours shorter. It can be possibly made psychiatry problems on the students which are supposed to be caused by the internal de-synchronization of two circadian oscillators in humans. The usual usage of mobile phones in the evening or night might become successful ‘Electromagnetic and/or Psychological Zeitgeber(s)’ for circadian oscillator driving sleep-wake cycle of Japanese students from a chronobiological point of view. (Sleep and Hypnosis 2002;4(3):149-153)

19. Students using mobile for > 2 hours/day may cause sleep deprivation and day sleepiness affecting cognitive and learning abilities of medical students.

20. Thomee and Hagberg in 2011 explored their conclusions about high mobile phone usage . It was connected with sleep disturbances and symptoms of depression

21 Another study been evidence for the use of mobile phones overnight is linked with sleep disorder with deprived sleeping quality, short sleep period, tiredness during daytime etc.

22 A study conducted in Japan during the year of 2011 found that use of mobile phones for calling and for texting during nighttime is linked with sleep disturbances among Japanese adolescents.

23Varieties of studies have been employed to find out the cause for the sleeplessness in mobile users and theorize that reduced melatonin production in relative to the emitting radiation during hours of dark time.

24. Overtime use of mobile phones may lead to reduced melatonin production.

25. Recently, Jarupat and Kawabata have proved that electromagnetic radiation discharged from mobile phone reduce the concentration of blood melatonin in humans

26. 27 short sleep duration has been identified as a risk factor for weight gain and obesity. Constant unfair sleep scarcity leads to fatigue which may eventually lead to reduced physical activity (2,3).

28. Sleep deficit may also have neuronal and hormonal effects that lead to increased caloric intake which then coupled with lack of exercise results in obesity (4).

29. Since people are passing time on the mobile phone without such active body movements there are increased chances of getting fat; suggestive of obesity in constant mobile users.

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30 A study was done recently suggests that bedtime mobile phone use is negatively related to sleep outcomes in adults is an exception for the above studies.

31 A study performed recently claims that constant mobile usage causes eye and ear problems, fatigue, sleep disturbances, etc. But the hypertension was negatively correlated in terms of mobile usage

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