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30 Technium Soc. Sci. J. 252 (2022)
The Impact of Mobile Phones on High School Students: Connecting the Research Dots

handle is hein.journals/techssj30 and id is 253 raw text is: Technium Social Sciences Journal Vol. 30, 252-270, April, 2022 ISSN: 2668-7798 SOCIAL SCIENCES JOURNAL www.techniumscience.com The impact of mobile phones on high school students: connecting the research dots Sana Sadiq, Khadija Anasse, Najib Slimani LITTARIP, Ibn Tofail University sanasadiq951@gmail.com, khadijaanasse@gmail.com, najslimani@gmail.com Abstract. Due to the ubiquity of mobile phones throughout the world, there have been extensive scholarly research on their impact within and across areas. Researchers have looked at the impact of this device from different angles, and many scholars have been concerned with the extent to which its usage affects students' academic performance, particularly in high-school. Several scholars (Kevin Thomas and Marco A. Munoz, 2016, Hosoglu, 2019) have probed the topic using different databases, but the present paper is one of the few to examine Scopus, Science Direct, Web of Science and Cairn with a two-fold aim, namely to summarize the state-of-the-art in this subject area, and, most importantly, to discuss the researchers' attitudes. 70 articles from the three databases were selected following the PRISMA guidelines to investigate the researchers' decade-long trends in the literature. We discerned different attitudes and results vis-a-vis the mobile phone impact depending on the variables treated and the location of the study. Keywords. Mobile phone, adolescents, high school students, impact Introduction The widespread use of mobile technology is the main feature of our time (Silver et al., 2019). According to the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), mobile technology continues to grow at a rapid pace and is transforming the world in depth (Facts and Figures 2020 - ITU Hub, n.d.). Currently, mobile technology is characterized by Internet-connected devices, such as tablets, watches and smartphones. The smartphone is a mobile phone with artificial intelligence that allows it to replace many devices such as computer, camera, alarm clock, calculator, stopwatch and even television. Today, the mobile phone, thanks to the artificial intelligence it has, its easy handling and its relatively affordable prices, now replaces many devices in different fields; from social to medical ones (Xiao et al., 2021). The mobile phone is the most coveted and used, especially by adolescents. During adolescence, adolescents aspire to discover themselves and their environment, and they display a proclivity to follow temptations without being able to fully distinguish what is harmful from what is not. This is why teenagers are intemperate for the mobile phone; it allows them to achieve their desires and build their own world away from the watchful eyes of the parents or care providers in reality (Andrews et al., 2021; Laursen & Veenstra, 2021; Schmidt et al., 2021). It is, therefore, not a mere problem of teenage mobile ownership, but the potential psychological and academic dysfunctions related to this usage. According to scholars, such as (Lapierre et al., 252

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