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Behavioral Addictions with Special Foucus on Smartphone AddictionOnly 14 pages are availabe for public view
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Abstract
Smartphones are popular devices capable of processing more information than other phones; they include many features such as games, access to the Internet and social networks, messaging, videos, multimedia, and navigation, in addition to their use for communication. Access to the Internet is increasingly easy due to improvements in mobile technology and the prevalence of smartphones.
Behavior addictions, including smartphone addiction, are generally difficult to define because they are related not only to physical, but also to social and psychological factors. The core features of behavioral addiction include the following: sustained engagement in a behavior despite its negative effects, decreased control over participation in the behavior, compulsive participation, and appetitive or craving urges that instantly precede engagement in the behavior. Official diagnostic criteria for smartphone addiction do not exist. However, based on the definition of Internet addiction, smartphone addiction has been defined as the overuse of smartphones to the extent that it disturbs users daily lives.
These factors may cause higher use of smartphone or electronic media devices among young adults, such as university students.
The main questions in our study, we covered three important questions in university students of four different faculties which are prevalence of smartphone addiction among university students, prevalence of different psychiatric problems in university students such as depression , anxiety , sleep disturbance , cigarette smoking , suicidal thoughts , suicidal behaviors and non-suicidal self injury, relationship between smartphone addiction and different psychiatric problems in university students.