Excessive Usage of Smartphones by Junior College Students

There are various researches, debates, and discussions going on about the impact of smartphones on a student’s generation. In this article writer compared the ratio of girls and boys and their use of mobile phone during studies. Easy access and overuse of mobile phones by students has induced sedentary behavior responsible for negative health consequences along with havoc in academic and social life. The writer talks about a part of Maharashtra majority of student get their first phone when they move secondary to senior secondary. According to writer junior college part of life is most important part of life and a research on mobile usage in teens is limited.

A cross sectional study of Mobile phone with its multiple uses is a necessity of every person for communicating with family and friends, not only a personal was selected randomly complied with the required sample size. First, they took permission from head of the study institute for data collection The first section of the study questionnaire included items on the sociodemographic factors such as age and sex. The second section of questionnaire included 11‑point scale of graded responses regarding mobile use was selected from the published studies with a maximum allotted score of 33.

Three groups were formed on the basis of score: Low‑score group (normal use) with 0–9 score, medium‑score group (overuse) 10–17 score, and high‑score group (excess use) with 18–33 score. After declaration of institutional ethical committee, a student of junior studies with arts, commerce, and science stream near about 5.6% student accepted that they use their mobile phone always in class, 4.9% use occasionally, 11% use sometimes and majority of like 78.6% don’t use phone in class. There was no sex wise discrimination for the use of mobile in class. One of the main reasons for this research their parents want their children to have mobile phone for safety and various surveys worldwide have found high rates of mobile phones. In this study 429 [68.98%] youngsters had mobile however finding are similar with study conducted on British adolescents between 11 and 18 years by olatz While madell and muncher found 86% English adolescents owned mobiles phones and it was significantly more common in girlsIn this study, however, boys (258, 60.13%) owned mobile set significantly higher than girls (171, 39.86%). This fact either reflects gender bias or girls are less demanding than boys.

Conclusions

Excess use of mobile phones was seen in one‑third of students, and it was significantly associated with age and stream of education. More than one‑third students reported restlessness in the absence of mobile phones. Majority students felt their schooling, sleep, and daily core are getting affected by mobile phone use. Therefore, monitoring of adolescent’s mobile phone use by parents is required to identify any deviation from normal judicious use.

Reference:

1. Retrieved from https://login.ezproxy.cnc.bc.ca/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=edb&AN=123285015&site=eds-live&scope=site(Naik, A.D 2017 )