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Smartphone addiction among university students in the light of some variables
Computers in Human Behavior, 2016
We explored the frequency and indices of smartphone addiction in a group of King Saud University students and investigated whether there were differences in smartphone addiction based on gender, social status, educational level, monthly income and hours of daily use. We developed a questionnaire probing smartphone addiction consisting of five dimensions: 1) overuse of smartphone, 2) the psychological-social dimension, 3) the health dimension, 4) preoccupation with smartphones, and 5) the technological dimension. After being validated, the questionnaire was administered to 416 students, both male and female, at King Saud University. Results revealed that addiction percentage among participants was 48%. The order of smartphone addiction indices were as follows: overuse of smartphone, the technological dimension, the psychological-social dimension, preoccupation with smartphones, and the health dimension. Significant gender differences were found in the degree of addiction on the whole questionnaire and all of its dimensions with the exception of the technological dimension in favor of males. Significant differences by social status were found in favor of the unmarried. Bachelor degree students were found to have the highest degree of addiction. Significant differences by hours of daily use were also detected in favor of participants using the smartphone for more than 4 h a day. As to the monthly income dimension, significant differences were found on the health dimension in favor of participants with lower monthly income.
The study was conducted to assess the level of addiction and attitude towards mobile phone use among students of a selected college – Chennai. The overall aim of the study is to find out the various aspects of mobile phone addiction, and the level of mobile phone addiction and attitude towards mobile phone use among the students in a selected college. The objectives of the study were to assess the level of mobile phone addiction among college students, to assess the attitude of college students towards mobile phones, to assess the correlation between the level of addiction and attitude towards mobile phone use among the college students, to associate the level of addiction of college students to mobile phone use with the demographic variables and to associate the attitude of college students towards mobile phone use with demographic variables. The conceptual framework was developed based on NOLA J PENDER'S HPM (1982). CV for the tool has been obtained from experts. The reliability of the tool is 0.89 for addiction and 0.96 for attitude. After the pilot study the data collection procedure proceeded. The study was conducted in Loyola College of arts and science, Chennai. The data collected from the subjects were analyzed using descriptive (Frequency, percentage, mean and standard deviation), 't' test and inferential (chi square) statistical methods. The study showed that 73(52.1%) of them had moderate addiction, 57(40.7%) of them had mild addiction and 10(7.1%) of them had severe addiction. showed that 107 (76.4%) of sample had moderately favourable attitude, 30 (21.4%) of sample had favourable attitude and 3 (2.1%) had unfavourable attitude towards mobile phone use. The 'r' value 0.02 shows there is weak positive correlation between the level of addiction and attitude and the 'p' value of 0.86 shows there is no significant correlation between mobile phone addiction and attitude. There is significant association between the demographic variables such as year of study, type of mobile phone currently using, hours of usage of mobile phones per day, number of mobile phones currently using, number of sim cards currently using and the level of addiction to mobile phone. It indicates that mobile phone addiction among college students is influenced by the type of mobile phone, the hours of usage per day, number of mobile phones and number of sim cards used. The study concluded that more than half of the college students had moderate level of mobile phone addiction and two third of students had moderately favourable attitude towards mobile phone use.
Universal Journal of Public Health, 2022
Smartphones are mobile phones with advanced features over and above those of basic phones. Smart phone addiction has been an emerging problem in modern era. But the existing knowledge about excessive use of smartphone still remains insufficient. The objective was to determine the prevalence of smartphone addiction, its predictors and details on smartphone use among medical college students in Puducherry, South India. A cross sectional study involved 253 second and third year medical college students in a Government medical college in Puducherry, South India was carried out. Data were collected using a validated, pretested, structured, and self-administered questionnaire. Appropriate statistical methods such as descriptive statistics, mean and standard deviation were performed for demographic variables. Logistic regression analysis was done to determine demographic and health-related predictors of smartphone addiction. In this present study, the prevalence of smartphone addiction among medical students was 54.2%. Addiction to smart phone had influenced various effects on health such as physical, psychological and social effects. Independent factors such as usage of smart phone for more than two hours, avoiding daily tasks and duties, not being punctual in day-today activities were significantly associated with smart phone addiction. To conclude Smart phone as a self-learning tool is essential. But overuse results in addiction. Increased awareness and standardized measures for identification of smart phone addiction and appropriate intervention for those in need of help might alleviate this problem.
Smartphone Addiction among the higher secondary School Students
This study explores the prevalence of smartphone addiction among higher secondary school students in the Chennai and Thiruvalluvar regions of Tamil Nadu, India. The researchers employed a normative survey method to gather data, utilizing an online gaming addiction tool designed specifically for this investigation. The sample for the study comprised 780 higher secondary school students, and the collected data were analyzed using mean, standard deviation (S.D), and 't' value statistics. The findings of this research indicate that, on average, smartphone addiction among higher secondary school students is prevalent. Interestingly, the level of smartphone addiction showed a significant difference based on gender, suggesting that there may be variations in usage patterns and dependency among male and female students. However, the study did not find significant differences in smartphone addiction when comparing students from different localities within Chennai and Thiruvalluvar, implying that the issue is widespread across the studied regions.
An analysis of smartphone addiction among MBBS students
IP innovative publication pvt ltd, 2020
Smartphones have become an integral part of our everyday life due to its varied and advanced functionality and easy availability. The nearly universal availability of smartphones and the close association of this with humans has led to various concerns about it becoming a part of behavioral addiction. In this study, smartphone addiction was assessed by using the short version of smartphone addiction scale (SAS-SV) and an attempt has been made to analyse the behavioral component associated with addiction. Materials and Methods: Semi-structured questionnaire containing socio-demographic variables were given to 200 students. SAS-SV scale was used to assess smartphone addiction among the study sample. Results: Results showed 26.9% male and 28% of female participants were addicted to smartphones according to SAS-SV scores. 43% male and 19% female participants spend > 5 hrs using smartphones per day and 8% of female participants and 6.4% of males spend > 5 hrs on social media. Withdrawal, conflict, tolerance and salience were the psychological features observed in our study sample. Conclusions: In conclusion, smartphone addiction was found to be around 26.9% and 28% among the male and female respondents by using the SAS-SV scale. In our study 8% of girls and 6.4% of boys agreed that they spend more than 5 hours on social media every day. Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook were the commonly used social media sites used by them. The findings in our study did correlate with Brown’s well established framework for behavioral addiction especially behavior like withdrawal, conflict, tolerance and salience.
Smartphone addiction among post-graduate management students: The Indian experience
Congent Arts & Humanities, 2023
This study aimed to recognize the patterns of smartphone addiction among postgraduate management students in the NorthEast Region of India. The validated Smartphone Addiction Proneness Scale (SAPS) was administered to the respondents, and two different methods, namely SAPS method and median-based scoring method, were used to measure smartphone addiction. The measurement results of smartphone addiction show evidence that the student respondents are not vulnerable to smartphone addiction. Principal component analysis with promax rotation (Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin measure = 0.84; Bartlett's test of sphericity = 0.000) demonstrated four crucial components that signify smartphone addiction which are habitual issues (issues relating to regularly or repeatedly doing or practicing something), withdrawal anxiety, tolerance, and usage outcomes. Gender was not seen to play a significant role in these components. The duration of use of a smartphone was seen to have a significant relationship with the component of habitual issues but not with the other components.
International Journal of Scientific and Technological Research, 2020
This study investigated PBC for Smartphone addiction among the students of Mawlana Bhashani Science and Technology University (MBSTU) and researched whether there are statistically significant distinctions in smartphone addiction among Psychological Behavior Change (PBC) and some other variables with respect to different dimensions. Methods: To enhance a suitable research questionnaire which be composed of with five dimensions questionnaire: excessively use of smartphone (EUS); psychosomatic-social dimension (PSD); wellbeing dimension (WD); anxiety with smartphones (AS) and high-tech dimension (HTD). A group of 520 university students, with 267 male and 253 female students, at MBSTU students was interviewed. Results: Result showed that 42.87% participants was highly addicted in smartphone and faced PBC problem. In the basis of respective dimensions was found the statistically significant gender distinctions in the addictions of smartphone and most of time prefer in male students. There are significant differences was found by marital status which in prefer in unmarried students and use of the smartphone for greater than or equal to 4 hours in a day, by several hours of casual usage. Highest degree of smartphone addiction were found in Bachelor degree students with compare to Master's degree students. As like for the monthly earning, statistically significant distinctions in well-being conditions were set up the respondents of the lower monthly earning family. Conclusion: PBC problem among University students in MBSTU are at risk of smartphones addiction; PBC phenomenon is significantly associated with negative or bad effects on daily academic life and performance.
Investigation of Smartphone Addiction Levels Among University Students
International Journal of Psychology and Educational Studies, 2020
The purpose of this study is to examine the smartphone addiction levels among university students. For this purpose, first of all, students' addiction levels were determined, and then it was examined whether these levels differed according to the gender of the students, the purpose of using the internet on the smartphone, and the usage times of smartphones. The causal comparison method was used in the research as a quantitative research method and the sampling of the research consisted of 435 students studying in the Faculty of Theology at Ondokuz Mayıs University and who were determined by the accessible sampling method. In order to determine the smartphone addiction levels of university students, the data was obtained with the Smartphone Addiction Scale. Descriptive statistics, the independent samples t-test, and one-way analysis of variance were used to analyze the obtained data. The results of the research showed that students studying in the Faculty of Theology had low levels of smartphone addiction, male students had higher levels of smartphone addiction compared to female students, the use of social media via smartphones increased the risk of addiction, and that students with a higher average daily smartphone usage also had higher levels of addiction.
Archives of Epidemiology, 2019
Introduction: Sri Guru Ram Das Institute of Medical Sciences and Research is a tertiary health care institution. The adoption of mobile phones promotes an addiction-like behaviour and is evolving as a public health problem that renders them at risk of developing addictions. Aim and Objective: To study and compare the addiction like behaviour of mobile phone using adolescent and young adult medical students of SGRDIMSAR. Material and Methods: This was a cross sectional type of study conducted amongst adolescent (age < 19years) and young adult (age >19 years) medical students of SGRDIMSAR, Sri Amritsar from October 2018 to January 2019 upon 412 medical students willing to participate in the study. These medical students were divided into two groups i.e. adolescents and young adults. A series of 20 standardised questions having two responses i.e. agree and disagree was used to assess their addiction like behaviour. The effects of mobile phone on it's users were divided into following groups i.e. Anxiety, Lack of control, Lack of priority for urgent matters, Trouble caused to mobile phone user and other addiction like effects of mobile phone use. These were analyzed statistically by applying the ꭓ 2 test and the valid conclusions were drawn. Results: Total 412 medical students of SGRDIMSAR were studied. Among these students 102 (24.7%) were the adolescents and 310 (75.3%) were young adults. Among the 20 questions related to the addiction like behaviour of the medical students using the mobile phones, for the 19 questions, higher percentage of young adults was found than the adolescents who agreed for the questions asked. For question regarding complaining by friends and family about their excessive mobile phone use higher number and percentage, 163 (55.8%) of adolescents agreed as compared to young adults, 57 (52.5%), that was contrary to the responses given by them to the other questions. Conclusion: Higher percentage had shown the addiction like behaviour in young adults than adolescents due mobile phone use. This might be due to the reason that they had higher age; thus they might have used the mobile phones for the longer period of time. It is recommended that further studies should be conducted on smartphone users and large sample size of study subjects should be taken. Now among the students using mobile phones/smartphones; as both are in use now, early diagnosis and management of addiction like behavior should be done.
The Medical journal of Malaysia, 2020
OBJECTIVE Problematic smartphone use (PSU) is the development of pathological dependence at the expense of performing activities of daily living, thus having negative health and psychological impact on the users. Previous PSU studies focused on medical students and little is known regarding its effect on students undergoing other courses. The objective of this study is to identify the pattern of smartphone usage and determine the psychological factors affecting PSU among undergraduate students in Malaysia and compare the pattern among students from different fields of study. METHOD A prospective cross-sectional study was conducted using the validated Smartphone Addiction Scale-Malay version (SAS-M) questionnaire. One-way ANOVA was used to determine the correlation between the PSU among the students categorised by their ethnicity, hand dominance and by their field of study. MLR analysis was applied to predict PSU based on socio-demographic data, usage patterns, psychological factors ...