{"pk":65247,"title":"Classifying Nomophobia as Smart-Phone Addiction Disorder","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Can people become addicted to using their smart phones? To explore this possibility, this literature review summarizes previous research on smart-phone addiction, nomophobia, and addictive personality disorders. Specifically, this review defines smart-phone addiction and its symptoms along with comorbid disorders and uses disciplines from a cognitive, behavioral, neurobiological, and anthropological disciplines as evidence of its existence. Although this review also found that there is little research on nomophobia and smart-phone addiction, it argues that this should be a call for recognition of growing use smart-phone and potential behavioral addictions they pose. This review also suggests that nomophobia, the anxiety experienced from loss of a smart-phone, is not a specific phobia but rather a withdrawal symptom and proposes that “Smart-phone addiction disorder” be included in future revisions of the DSM, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manuel of Mental Disorders.","language":"en","license":null,"keywords":[],"section":"Articles","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0pq332g4","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Dewey","middle_name":"","last_name":"Tran","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of California, Merced","department":""}],"date_submitted":"2016-12-06T12:48:16Z","date_accepted":"2016-12-06T12:48:16Z","date_published":"2016-01-01T00:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/ucm_mwp_ucmurj/article/65247/galley/50003/download/"}]}