إدمان الهواتف الذكية لدى طلبة جامعة الخرطوم

Abstract EN

Reports had revealed that internet addiction and smartphone addiction is a newly emerging mental health issue among the youths and has attracted much attention around the world.

Furthermore, excessive use of the internet has negatively affected the daily life routines of adolescents and university students.

This phenomenon has also been observed in several Arab and African countries but has not received adequate attention in Sudan.

So, the objective of this study was to investigate the phenomenon of smart phone addiction among Khartoum University students, and to identify its relationship with some demographic variables.

In order to achieve the objectives of the study, the Arab Smartphone Addiction Scale was administered to (727) males and females students at the University of Khartoum (379) females, and 348 males, ranging in age from 17-30 years, with an average age of (21.47) from scientific and humanities colleges, bachelor and postgraduate students.

The results of the study revealed that the prevalence of smart phone addiction is 39.2%, that there are no differences between males and females in the addiction of smart phones, and there is no correlation between age and smart phones addiction.

The study also did not reveal differences due to the different social situation, moreover the study did not reveal differences due to differences in the academic stage between bachelor and postgraduate students, while it found differences in smartphones addiction attributed to the difference in the number of hours and the rate of use for those who use the smartphone more than 4 hours a day, and found differences due to the difference of specialization between the humanities students and scientific students in favor of humanities students.