Immoderate smart phone usage usually makes the students addicted to it and spends less time reading lecture notes and textbooks. This study aims to determine university students' usage of smart phones and perceived rejection of paper books in an EFL context. The study collected data through a 20-item structured questionnaire consisting of the general characteristics, the number and hours of gen...

According to the research on time perspective, the present time perspective is positively correlated with risky behaviors. Thus, when educating students, teachers tend to encourage them to have the future time perspective instead of the present time perspective. The risky behavior is also related to addiction problem. Recently, technology addiction such as smart phone addiction is one of the an...

The fundamental cause of teenagers’ addiction to smart phone is due to stress arising from family and school. Smartphone can cause many problems including musculoskeletal symptom which can develop due to staying in one position for a long time. Furthermore, starring at a small screen for an extended time can cause decreased eye sight, along with amblyopia. Smart phone addiction causes depressio...

background: poor sleep quality is closely associated with lifestyle habits including use of mobile cell-phones.this study aimed to identify the relationship between sleep quality due to abuse in mobile cell-phones and engagement in social networks. methods : this cross-sectional study was conducted on 380 undergraduate students selected by proportional stratified sampling in qom, iran in 2015. ...

Aim: There is a few studies examining primary headaches and online gaming or smartphone addiction in line with causality. 
 Material Method: Children adolescents, aged 11-18 years old, those diagnosed of tension-type headache migrain were evaluated terms game addiction. Smartphone Addiction Scale-Short Version (SAS-SV) Online Game Scale (OGAS) was used. SPSS 17.0 program used for statistic...

background: the goals of the present work were to retrieve the scientific articles published on addiction to the internet, video games, and cell phones and to analyze the pattern of publications in this area (who is doing the research, when and where it is taking place, and in which journals it is being  published), to determine the research being conducted as well as to document geographical t...