A Comprehensive Study of Nomophobia and Smartphone Addiction in Adolescents: Impacts and Technological Interventions

Today many people spend lot of time on their Smartphone. The extreme usage of smart phones leads to several bodily warning signs such as fine and awful thoughts, pathological gambling obsession, sadness, panic, nervousness, less efficiency and low academic achievement. Consequently, avoidance activities shall be initiated in the case of extreme and wild tendency of using Smartphone. The term NOMOPHOBIA (NOMObile PHone PHOBIA) depict a mental state when human beings have a feel that they are isolated from mobile phone connectivity. In this research, Smartphone addiction and NOMObile PHone PHOBIA levels amongst students in the age between twelve and eighteen has been analyzed. The demographic and academic variables predicting these levels have also been investigated. A detailed study on NOMOPHOBIA and Smartphone addiction and its impact among adolescent students (secondary and high school) has been presented in this paper. It has been learnt that even though mobile phones make our life comfortable, they may cause dangerous and unhealthy situations. Hence, technology based preventive and corrective measures available have been discussed. Wearable devices to prevent NOMOPHOBIA have been discussed. Suggestions have been given to incorporate measures to avoid mobile phone addiction in the mobile instrument itself.