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Complete 14 pages APA formatted article: The Negative Psychological Impacts of Electronic.

Complete 14 pages APA formatted article: The Negative Psychological Impacts of Electronic. Thomee, Harenstam and Hagberg established very interesting results in their study of the impact of mobile phones on young adults. The study established that the frequent use of the mobile phone was associated with stress, sleep disturbances in young adults.&nbsp. The study established that, due to the fact that these young people had access to a mobile phone, they were expected to be on call round the clock. They were thus disturbed by the calls and messages that were sent to them in during the day and at night. The accessibility issue is highly related to mental health outcomes because the stress caused from the use of the phones is associated with sleep disturbances. In another interesting study, it was established that people who stopped using mobile phones registered low blood pressure and thus their level of stress was down as compared to those who were preoccupied with mobile phones (BBC). The study thus established that it is the heavy use of the mobile phones that has resulted in stress among the users. Cell phone use has been attributed to cause depression in many ways. In a study by Thomee, Harenstam and Hagberg, it was found that, young people showed symptoms of depression as a result of heavy use of the mobile phone. On the other hand Lambert argues that heavy phone use contributes directly to depression and this is caused by the: (1) the lack of social contact seen through handshakes, hugs, facial gestures and words as this is replaced with text messaging and phone calls.

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