Evaluation of College Students’ the Level of Addiction to Cellular Phone and Investigation on the Relationsship between the Addiction and the Level of Depression (original) (raw)
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Archives of Epidemiology, 2019
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MOBILE PHONE ADDICTION AMONG COLLEGE YOUTH
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Test Development for Cellular Phone Addiction among College Students
International Journal of BioSciences, Psychiatry and Technology, 4(3), 27-36, 2017
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Mobile addiction and its relationship with quality of life in medical students
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IOSR Journal of Dental and Medical Sciences (IOSR-JDMS), 2017
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MOBILE PHONE ADDICTION AMONG HIGHER SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN CHENNAI CITY
IASET, 2021
The serious crisis that currently concerns the entire planet extends beyond the daily social, cultural, economic, and other disputes. These were set aside in order to move to a global alert, which refers to the pandemic problem that is affecting every country on the planet. Because confinement compelled individuals all over the world to stay at home, electronic communications became increasingly important. The objective of this study is not to investigate the pandemic epidemic; rather, it is to investigate how students use their cell phones, to see if this has resulted in addiction, and to discover if usage differs between boys and girls. A. Velayudhan and S. Srividya created the Mobile Phone Addiction Scale. The questionnaires used in this study were created in 2012 and revalidated by the investigator in 2021. A total of 75 boys and 75 girls from Chennai's XI standard were included in the study. Three higher secondary schools were chosen using a basic random sampling technique. The data was analysed using descriptive statistics such as mean, standard deviation, and the 't' test. The major findings of the study were i) There is a significant difference in mobile phone addiction between boys and girls in higher secondary school ii) There will be no significant difference in mobile phone addiction between nuclear family and joint family students of higher secondary school.