Parents’ attachment to screens and smartphones can have negative, long-lasting developmental and psychological effects on ...

Addiction treatment centres say more clients are coming for help with "out-of-control" phone use.

A new study published in Frontiers in Psychology suggests excessive smartphone use by parents could weaken emotional bonds ...

It's possible to be addicted to a phone, and this condition is increasingly common in today's digitally driven world. Known as "nomophobia" (no-mobile-phone-phobia), phone addiction isn't just about ...

Are you reading this on your smartphone in between texting your group chat, scanning headlines, responding to your boss on Slack, doing Wordle, and checking the status of your Instagram post to ease ...

Mumsnet has launched a campaign to raise awareness about the dangers of smartphone and social media addiction in children.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Phone addiction doesn’t usually look like loss of control. It looks like normal behavior that slowly crowds out attention, ...

We tend to check our phones every five minutes. My friend joked the other day that he feels more naked without his phone than without his clothes! Distraction and entertainment through our phones can ...

Physical phone-blocking devices, powered by NFC wireless technology, are becoming a popular solution for doomscrolling. Brigid Delaney puts one to the test Wake up, 100 messages from group chat ...

Most of the time when we talk about addiction the focus is on issues like drug use, alcoholism or even sex addiction. Thankfully with these major problems, we have access to therapy plans which have ...