Addiction to Transition: Efficacy of Harm Reduction Behavioral Intervention Technique for Nomophobia

Abstract

Indian adolescents are greatly affected by high Smartphone engagement and are currently driving Smartphone’s market in India. With the rapid rise of smart phone usage in recent years, smart phone devices have become a ubiquitous part of our culture and revolutionized how we live. The present study focused on analyzes the efficacy of Behavioral recovery techniques on Craving, & impaired Control. The samples composed of 80 students were screened, out of which 100 students selected randomly from Bathinda, Patiala and Mansa. For this purpose, Nomophobia Questionnaire (Yildirim & Correia, 2014), Mobile Phone Addiction Craving Scale (Durán AL, Becoña E., 2006) and Brief Self-Control Scale (Tangney et al., 2004) were used to assess the efficacy of Behavioral recovery techniques on Craving, & impaired Control respectively. It was hypothesized that 1) Behavioral recovery techniques would lower down craving for smart phone usage i.e., post-Intervention craving scores would be significantly less in comparison to their Pre-Intervention craving scores. 2) Behavioral recovery techniques would enhance controllability over for smart phone usage i.e., post-Intervention control scores would be significantly better as compared to their Pre-Intervention control scores. Analysis of variance (ANOVA) to evaluate the mean differences following pre and post intervention on carving and self-control behavior. The f-ratio came out to be significant {F (197.513) = p>.01}. There was a significant difference between pre and post of craving score and the f-ratio came out to be significant {F (70.329) = p<.01}. It also showed that there was a significant difference between pre and post of self-control behavior.