Abstract: Based on the summary of foreign research, there is still no consensus on the concept of mobile phone addiction; the object of the study is mainly the young people and the quantitative research is used as the main research method; the relationship of eight variables including gender, age, self-esteem and so on with mobile phone addiction is investigated; the harm of mobile phone addiction is involved in three fields - physiological, psychological and social and the precaution should be made in both mobile phone itself and in education The foreign research mainly focuses on physiology and psychology aspects which is microcosmic and investigation from macroscopic view is urgently needed

Key words: mobile phone addiction, behavioral addiction, social reality