SMART PHONE RELATED PROBLEMS OF UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

Abstract

Smart phones have become so popular nowadays that the age of using individual smart phones has dropped to the level of primary school. Smart phones contain different functions such as using Internet, banking transactions, follow the news, video conversation, social media, entering the stock market, etc. Intensive use of mobile phones causes some problems. This problems creates some issues for students in their lives. The aim of this research was to reveal the problems that students face as a result of excessive use of smart phones. For this purpose, fifty university freshman students were asked to express whether they were dependent on the smart phone and the problems they encountered as a result of excessive use of smart phones. Data were collected by semi-structured interview form. Data were analyzed by content analysis. As a result of the research, it was found that most of the students were smart phone addicts. It has been found that excessive use of smartphones leads to health, individual, social, school and family problems. The most important problems encountered in health are lacrimation, increased level of myopia and increased pain in the eyes and dry eyes. Problems such as anxiety disorder, pain in the neck and hands, and numbness and distractibility were also expressed. In terms of school, the most important problems are devoting most of time to smart phone and resulting less study lesson and read book.When used properly, mobile phones contribute positively to the learning process. However, excessive use leads to addiction and many social, physical and psychological problems.