Open AccessPsychological risk factors associated with internet and smartphone addiction among students of an Indian dental institute
Author(s) -
Sumeet Bhatt,
Ambika Gaur
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
indian journal of public health/indian journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.381
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 2229-7693
pISSN - 0019-557X
DOI - 10.4103/ijph.ijph_330_18
Subject(s) - addiction , anxiety , interquartile range , affect (linguistics) , medicine , the internet , clinical psychology , cross sectional study , depression (economics) , scale (ratio) , mental health , smartphone addiction , psychiatry , psychology , physics , communication , pathology , quantum mechanics , world wide web , computer science , economics , macroeconomics
The internet and smartphones have a strong potential for addiction. Excessive use of these technologies can have adverse effects on psychological well-being of the users.