![]() The study was conducted among a sample of Malaysian adults. This study was approved by Human and Animal Ethics Committee of AIMST University (AUHAEC/FOP/2016/05) and conducted according to the Declaration of Helsinki. Hence, the present study was planned to study the addiction behavior of mobile phone usage using an online survey. Mobile phone addiction and withdrawal from mobile network may increase anger, tension, depression, irritability, and restlessness which may alter the physiological behavior and reduce work efficacy. A mental impairment resulting from modern technology has come to the attention of sociologists, psychologists, and scholars of education on mobile addiction. Mobile phone is the most dominant portal of information and communication technology. The signs of smartphone addiction are constantly checking the phone for no reason, feeling anxious or restless without the phone, waking up in the middle of night to check the mobile and communication updates, delay in professional performance as a result of prolonged phone activities, and distracted with smartphone applications. This behavior may reduce thinking capabilities, affect cognitive functions, and induce dependency. Mobile phone is becoming an integral part to students with regard to managing critical situations and maintaining social relationships. ![]() Currently, the addiction to smartphones among students is 24.8%–27.8%, and it is progressively increasing every year. While beneficial in numerous ways, smartphones have disadvantages such as reduction in work efficacy, personal attention social nuisance, and psychological addiction. In recent years, most of the global populations (especially college and university students), use smartphones, due to its wide range of applications. concluded that the mobile phone radiation may increase the reactive oxygen species, which plays an important role in the development of metabolic and neurodegenerative diseases. In animals, chronic exposure to Wi-Fi radiation caused behavioral alterations, liver enzyme impairment, pyknotic nucleus, and apoptosis in brain cortex. Overusage of mobile phones may cause psychological illness such as dry eyes, computer vision syndrome, weakness of thumb and wrist, neck pain and rigidity, increased frequency of De Quervain's tenosynovitis, tactile hallucinations, nomophobia, insecurity, delusions, auditory sleep disturbances, insomnia, hallucinations, lower self-confidence, and mobile phone addiction disorders. The recent studies also reported the increase of mobile phone dependence, and this could increase internet addiction. In 2012, new Time Mobility Poll reported that 84% people “couldn't go a single day without their mobile devices.” Around 206 published survey reports suggest that 50% of teens and 27% of parents feel that they are addicted to mobiles. Parlay, the addiction behavior to mobile phone is also increasing. The percentage of households with internet access also increased from 18% in 2005 to 46% in 2015. ![]() The percentage of internet usage also increased globally 7-fold from 6.5% to 43% between 20. In 2016, there were more than seven billion users worldwide. The number of mobile cellular subscriptions is constantly increasing every year. ![]() In the last few years, hand phones have become an integral part of our lives. Mobile/hand phones are powerful communication devices, first demonstrated by Motorola in 1973, and made commercially available from 1984. ![]()
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