Effect of Excess Use of Cell Phone on Adolescent’s Mental Health and Quality of Life
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چکیده
Today’s environment conforms that adolescents are using various new information and communication technologies almost every time. New communication technology reference to the types of devices most commonly used and preferred for communication and entertainment purposes including computers with internet, cell-phones and television(Dehmler,2009).The cellphone is one of the advanced device that all most every adolescents use with maximum period (Rogers, 2006; Willoughby, 2008).They use cell-phone to communicate with friends and messages for entertainment and social networking (Rogers, 2006).
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