Authors

1. Mr. Himanshu Shekhawat
2. Dr. Durgesh Batra

Affiliation

• Associate Professor, Amity Business School, Amity University, Jaipur
• Associate Professor, Amity Business School, Amity University, Jaipur

Abstract

Mobile phones have gained immense popularity in the contemporary times. Everywhere be it offices,
colleges, schools, homes, parks, malls, trains, buses etc. we see people hooked onto mobile
phones. Especially young people or adolescents are spending most of their times on mobile phones
these days. In fact, it would not be wrong if we say that people, mostly adolescents, are addicted to
mobile phone. These addicts may manifest symptoms like low self-esteem, escapism and find it
extremely difficult to maintain healthy social relationships but can establish very good relationships
within the artificial or cyber world. A slight abandonment of mobile phones may result in anxiety,
stress, sensitiveness, shivers, insomnia and other metabolic disorders in them. In this research
paper, we attempt to study what is the connection between psychological features and mobile phone
overuse in young people

Keywords

Mobiles, Young People, Overuse, Psychological Features

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