Youth addicted to smartphones

The Dhaka Times Desk Research by psychiatrists suggests that around a quarter of young people are so dependent on their smartphones that it becomes an addiction.

This study from King's College London says that such addictive behavior means people become fearful or upset if denied constant access. Youngsters also cannot control the amount of time they spend on the phone. Studies warn that such addictions have serious consequences for mental health.

The study, published in BMC Psychiatry, analyzed 41 surveys involving 42,000 young people investigating problematic smartphone use. The study found that 23 percent had behaviors consistent with an addiction such as worrying about not being able to use their phone, not being able to control the amount of time spent on the mobile, and using the mobile so much that it became detrimental to other activities.

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Co-author Samantha Sohn cautioned that addictions can have serious consequences on mental health and daily functioning that can simultaneously impair our time and performance, so more investigation into problematic smartphone use is needed. But Amy Orben, a research fellow at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit at the University of Cambridge, took issue with the issue, warning that there is a functional link between problematic smartphone use and outcomes such as depression. Dr Orben said it had previously been shown that smartphone effects are not a one-way street, but that mood can also influence the amount of smartphone use.

More than half of UK parents, 49%, think mobile phones should be banned in their children's schools, according to the survey by price comparison site U-Switch. One in eight fathers said their child's school already did this.Just over a thousand people in the survey also suggested that the average gadget each child takes to school costs £301. Last year, then culture editor Matt Hancock said he praised schools that banned mobile phones. But some have argued that the bans prevent electronic devices like smartphones from learning how to self-regulate themselves.

The survey, conducted by Opinium on behalf of Uswitch, suggests that average spending on gadgets taken to school by children is increasing. Cross-cutting the total population of UK school pupils, USwich estimates that the value of all gadgets taken to school in 2019 will reach £2.3 billion. In addition, 43 percent of children now have a newer phone model than their parents, and adults in total spend $13 billion on phone bills recorded by their children each year.

This post was last modified on ডিসেম্বর ৮, ২০১৯ 11:26 am

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