Effect Of Mobile Phone Use On College Students’ Physical And Mental Health

Mobile phones gradually went into the lives of ordinary people, the steady growth of mobile phone users and the diversity of mobile phone functions, making the mobile phone dependence become a more and more significant phenomenon, the excessive use of mobile phones not only causes a variety of physical symptoms, increases the sense of loneliness, anxiety, depression, stress, impulsivity and other psychological problems. Most of the health problems caused by mobile phone addiction can be reduced or avoided through prevention and this is one of the effective measures to improve the college students’ awareness of dangers on excessive use of mobile phones. Study of mobile phone addiction can help reduce the rate of college students mobile phone addiction, thus reducing the negative impact of excessive use of mobile phones brought to people in everyday life.Objective: This paper aims to investigates college students’ physical and psychological characteristics by the way of questionnaire and literature review, in order to attracted the attention of society and the students themselves’ importance of mobile phone dependence, and provide a basis and practice guidance for college students ’ physical and mental health.Method: 1150 freshman to junior college students were extracted by convenience sampling method from a University in Jilin Province, and 1105 valid questionnaires were recovered. The survey includes students mobile phone use status(daily mobile phone use, mobile phone monthly consumption, the most used mobile phone functions, etc); Physical health status(whether cervical pain, whether the eyes acidity, headache, sleep status, etc); Mental health(alexithymia, anxiety, stress, depression), and the Toronto Alexithymia scale, Anxiety-Depression-Stress self-rating scale and Mobile Phone Addiction Index scale were used to understand the characteristics of the different cell phone usage and the differences in terms of physical and mental health.Result: The usage rate of smart phone of College students was 98.2%, over half of the college students’ mobile phone use in more than three hours every day, 77.6% of college students use the mobile phone before bedtime. Among the features of the phone call, send information using a mobile phone is still the main function of college students, accounted for 37.1%. The detection rate of mobile phone addiction of the total number was 25.2%, and the four dimensions of uncontrolled, withdrawal, escape and inefficiency detection rate followed by 27.8%, 31.4%, 38.6%, and 27.9%. There were significant difference on mobile phone addiction in gender, monthly mobile phones use, daily use time and whether or not using mobile phone before going to sleep, and on the grade, whether one-child, family residence, different years of mobile phone use were not significant difference. By the Chi-square Test shows that different degrees of mobile phone addiction of college students in addition to BMI values and cervical pain, eye acidity, headache, daytime sleepiness, quality of sleep, memory loss, body health evaluation had statistically significant(P<0.05). Variance analysis showed that the depression, anxiety, stress, alexithymia total score, the lack of ability to understand the emotional, lack of ability to describe emotion and extraversion thinking had significant difference between different degrees of mobile phone addiction(P<0.05). Further Logistic regression and linear regression analysis found that mobile phone addiction have positive predicted function to the eyes, headache, daytime sleepiness, objective evaluation quality of sleep, memory and physical health, depression, anxiety, stress, total score on alexithymia and its various dimensions.Conclusion: The rate of mobile phone usage and mobile phone addiction of college students was high, and have significant difference on college students in gender, monthly mobile phones use, daily use time and whether to use mobile phone before bedtime. Further analysis found that excessive use of mobile phones will cause a certain impact on the physical and mental health of college students.