A Review on the Psychological Effects of Smartphone Addiction

Abstract

Smartphone addiction is a type of addiction that has started to gain importance among behavioral addictions in recent years and has not yet been diagnostically classified. In this review, it is aimed to bring together the results of studies on the psychological harms of smartphone addiction and to determine what kind of psychological harm smartphone addiction related. This research was conducted with the systematic review method. Systematic review is the synthesis and presentation of many studies conducted by experts in the field with similar methods in a qualified and organized manner. The keywords "smartphone addiction" "mobile phone addiction", "problematic mobile phone use", "excessive mobile phone use", "psychological effect" and "psychological symptoms" were reviewed in July 2023. The fact that the articles must have been published in 2019-2023. In the research, articles written in Turkish and English were examined. In the databases during this initial review, the main sources of information for this study were selected using certain criteria for including and excluding data. A total of twelve research articles were examined. As a result, it was found that there is a relationship between smartphone addiction/problematic smartphone use and psychopathological symptoms such as depression, anxiety, neuroticism, eating disorders, insomnia and psychological effects such as stress, feeling sad, aggression, appearance anxiety, and loneliness. The findings are discussed within the scope of the relevant literature.