Classifying nomophobia as smart-phone addiction disorder
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Can people become addicted to using their smart phones? To explore this possibility, this literature review summarizes previous research on smart-phone addiction, nomophobia, and addictive personality disorders. Specifically, this review defines smart-phone addiction and its symptoms along with comorbid disorders and uses disciplines from a cognitive, behavioral, neurobiological, and anthropological disciplines as evidence of its existence. Although this review also found that there is little research on nomophobia and smart-phone addiction, it argues that this should be a call for recognition of growing use smart-phone and potential behavioral addictions they pose. This review also suggests that nomophobia, the anxiety experienced from loss of a smart-phone, is not a specific phobia but rather a withdrawal symptom and proposes that “Smart-phone addiction disorder” be included in future revisions of the DSM, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manuel of Mental Disorders.
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- Authors
- Tran, D.
- Affiliations
- University of California, Merced (US)
- Corresponding author
- Tran, Dewey
- Venue
- UC Merced Undergraduate Research Journal
- Publisher
- California Digital Library (CDL)
- Published
- 2016-01-01
- Volume
- 9
- Issue
- 1
- ISSN
- 2373-809X (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2766151269
- Cited by
- 52
- References
- 4
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 5.72
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
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- Licence
- cc-by-nc-nd
- Locations
- UC Merced Undergraduate Research Journal (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- eScholarship (California Digital Library) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Impact of Technology on Adolescents
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Gambling Behavior and Treatments
- Keywords
- nomophobia, smartphone addiction, behavioral addiction, comorbidities, specific phobia, DSM classification, psychiatric diagnosis
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