你一天会看多少次手机？
印度一项最新调查显示，印度大学生日均查看手机150次，原因是焦虑和担心错过最新消息。调查显示，约63%的人每天使用手机4至7小时。仅26%的人主要用手机打电话，其他人主要用于刷社交网站、看电影等娱乐用途。调查人员担心，依赖手机会让学生的健康和学业都受到负面影响。
College students in India check their phones over 150 times daily
Anxiety and the fear of missing out on the latest updates is what drives the students to keep checking their phones repeatedly.
A recent study says that college students in India check their mobile phone more than 150 times daily. The study was conducted by Aligarh Muslim University and the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR).
The research, called ‘Smartphone Dependency, Hedonism and Purchase Behaviour: Implications for Digital India Initiatives’, was conducted in 20 central universities, and from each university, 200 students were interviewed.
“Anxiety and fear of missing out on information make university students check their mobile devices as many as 150 times a day on an average, an activity which can have adverse effects on the students’ health as well as academics. Only 26% of the respondents said they use smartphones primarily to make calls. The remaining respondents use smartphones for other purposes such as accessing social networking sites, Google searches and for entertainment such as watching movies,” said Mohammed Naved Khan, the Project Director.
Another study conducted in 2017 had found that prolonged[1] use of smartphones can increase the risk of depression, anxiety and insomnia among teenagers. The use of mobiles could also lead to insomnia and increase their impulsiveness. The study was conducted by researchers from the Korea University in South Korea, during which they found an imbalance in the brain chemistry of youngsters who were addicted to internet use and their smartphones.
[1]prolonged: A prolonged event or situation continues for a long time, or for longer than expected. 长期的; 延长了的
...a prolonged period of low interest rates.
…一段很长的低利率期。
At least 14% of the students use smartphones for three hours or less daily while about 63% use it for four to seven hours everyday.
“It came as a shock to us that around 23% (of students) use the devices for more than eight hours a day,” Khan added.
The study found that 80% of the students had a smartphone since they have more features, is easier to handle and can substitute[2] as a computer.
[2]substitute:If you substitute one thing for another, or if one thing substitutes foranother, it takes the place or performs the function of the other thing. 以…代替; 代替
They were substituting violence for dialogue.
他们那时在以暴力代替对话。
He was substituting for the injured William Wales.
他那时在代替受伤的威廉·威尔士。
The study conducted by researchers at AMU has been funded by the ICSSR with an aim to understand various facets of smartphone dependency and addiction among college-going students.