Smartphone Addiction Assessment Using Pythagorean Fuzzy CRITIC-TOPSIS

Addiction to smartphones, particularly among adolescents, has reached alarming proportions, rivaling or perhaps exceeding internet addiction as the most widespread kind of dependence in modern culture. Evaluating degree problematic smartphone use habits by experts and identifying vulnerable ones steer right treatment program become a critical issue. Since such task may involve an abundance criteria candidates, well inherent subjectivity multiple decision participating process, assessment can be framed uncertain multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) problem. As extension intuitionistic fuzzy sets, Pythagorean sets used efficiently manage ambiguity uncertainty during decision-making. This study provides integrated MCDM methodology based on for evaluating level adolescents. The Criteria Importance Through Inter-criteria Correlation (CRITIC) method is determine importance levels objective manner, selected candidates are ranked using Technique Order Preference Similarity Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) approach. A sensitivity analysis conducted examine variations candidate rankings caused changes weights experts. Moreover, context comparative analysis, Evaluation Distance from Average (EDAS) approach validate acquired findings.