Abstract
Phone addiction causes significant social and psychological damage to people who excessively use mobile phones. Rapid social rhythm, busy daily life, and complex interpersonal relationships make people, especially the student groups, increasingly dependent on mobile phones, and also gradually change their communication behaviors. This paper uses the way of psychological empirical study to investigate 220 students in a Beijing high school through the Mobile Phone Addiction Index, Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale and UCLA Loneliness Scale. The results show that: (1) the ratio of phone addiction among phone users of high school students is about 17.95%, and it varies significantly from different school department; (2) there is no correlation between phone addiction and social anxiety; (3) there is a higher sense of loneliness in classmates who have phone addiction. It can be seen that in modern society, mobile phone has become the main tool of social communication, and that it has little effect on social anxiety. Loneliness is one of the main reasons for phone addiction of high school students. Therefore, this paper suggests that in order to prevent high school students from excessively relying on the phone, the school need to take measures to limit the time of students using mobile phones; and strengthening the intimate relationship among school, family and students can help to reduce phone addiction by lowing the loneliness of students.
Highlights
On January 22nd, 2017, China Internet Network Information Center (CNNC) published the 39th Statistical Report on Internet Development in China
This paper uses the way of psychological empirical study to investigate 220 students in a Beijing high school through the Mobile Phone Addiction Index, Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale and UCLA Loneliness Scale
The results show that: (1) the ratio of phone addiction among phone users of high school students is about 17.95%, and it varies significantly from different school department; (2) there is no correlation between phone addiction and social anxiety; (3) there is a higher sense of loneliness in classmates who have phone addiction
Summary
On January 22nd, 2017, China Internet Network Information Center (CNNC) published the 39th Statistical Report on Internet Development in China. Sanchez-Martinez and Otero used questionnaires to investigate 1328 adolescents whose age range between 13 and 20, and found that depression, social isolation, drug and alcohol use, academic failure and other factors are associated with overuse of cellphones. These result that excessive phone use may relate to interpersonal problems [3]. Han et al believe that introverted teenagers are eager to associate with others, but they are afraid of opening their minds to others Under this circumstance, mobile phone with its feature of hidden, virtual, relatively free becomes their topchoice to interact with people. This article discusses the relationship among the mobile phone addiction, social anxiety and loneliness of high school students, and provides suggestions for preventing and improving the situation of students’ mobile phones addiction
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