A Review Study of Mobile Phone Addiction and Sleep Quality and Anxiety in College Students

Abstract

Mobile phone addiction among college students has aroused widespread concern in society. At present, the existing research reviews focus more on the physical and psychological problems caused by Internet addiction among college students, and there are relatively few reviews on the physical and psychological problems caused by mobile phone addiction, among which the research on the decline in sleep quality and anxiety caused by mobile phone addiction still lacks a comprehensive and systematic overview. The aim of this review is to provide a comprehensive overview of sleep quality loss and anxiety caused by mobile phone addiction among college students. The author searched: Science, Nature, Wiley, Springer etc. electronic databases with appropriate keywords. Fifteen descriptive studies were finally included. The result shows that there is no significant difference between genders on mobile phone addiction, but the causes of mobile phone addiction differ between male and female students. Mobile phone addiction among college students was significantly associated with insomnia and decreased sleep quality, in which sleep disorders were also confirmed to be directly related to mobile phone addiction among the dimensions of sleep quality assessment. In addition, mobile phone addiction is also associated with higher rates of anxiety among college students.