A Study of Mobile Phone Addiction of Male –Female, School and College Level Student's

Abstract

Research has been done on smart phone usage and its impact on all adolescents from so many years. Some researcher examined adolescent’s physical health or educational performance with smart phone addiction and others analyzed psychological behavior and social relationship with mobile phone addiction. The present study has
been undertaken to study the mobile phone addiction of school-college, male-female
students of surguja district. The first problem of the present study was to examine whether
male and female respondents would show significant difference in their mobile phone
addiction. The second problem of the present study was to examine whether the school
and college students would show significant difference in their mobile phone addiction. A total of 80 students 40 male and 40 female (age groups 15-25 years) were randomly selected for study. Mobile phone addiction scale developed by Dr. A. Velayudhan
and Dr. S. Srividya was used. The data were analysed by using CR. Results show that
CR for the gender and age towards mobile phone addiction were found to be insignificant.