Investigating the Relationship between the Use of Mobile Phones and the Level of Anxiety, Depression, and Stress of First-secondary School Students

Today, mobile phones as a means of communication play an important role in people's lives and affect different aspects of life, so this study was conducted to investigate the relationship between the use of mobile phones and the level of stress of first-secondary students in Jiroft city.

The present study is a cross-sectional study [descriptive-analytical] that was conducted to investigate the relationship between the use of mobile phones and the level of stress among students of the first secondary school in Jiroft city. The data collection tool was a questionnaire, and data analysis were performed using SPSS version 20 software. Descriptive statistics were used to calculate the mean, median, and frequency percentage, and chi-square and independent t-tests were to calculate the analytical statistics.

This study showed the relationship between the daily use of mobile phones and the intensity of subscales. There was a statistically significant relationship between anxiety, stress, and depression and the use of mobile phones at the 5% level.

According to the results of the research, the use of mobile phones among secondary school students can have a destructive effect on their psyche therefore, the amount of mobile phone use among students is directly related to their stress and anxiety.