Assessment of Smartphone Addiction among Undergraduate Students of Sumandeep Vidyapeeth, Vadodara

 

Ms. Axi V. Patel¹, Ms. Axita P. Patel¹, Ms. Dhruvisha V. Patel¹, Ms. Dhvani M. Patel¹,

Ms. Dhvani R. Patel¹, Mrs. Janki B. Patel², Mr. Suresh V³

¹Sumandeep Nursing College, Sumandeep Vidyapeeth, Piparia, Vadodara

²Asst. Professor of Mental Health Nursing, Sumandeep Nursing College, Sumandeep Vidyapeeth, Piparia, Vadodara

³Head of Department Mental Health Nursing, Sumandeep Nursing College, Sumandeep Vidyapeeth, Piparia, Vadodara

 

ABSTRACT:

The study was conducted for Assessment of Smartphone Addiction among Undergraduate Students of Sumandeep Vidyapeeth, Vadodara. The study was conducted at the selected departments of Sumandeep Vidyapeeth like nursing department, pharmacy department, physiotherapy department, dental department and MBBS department. The sample size is 200 undergraduate students, from selected departments of Sumandeep Vidyapeeth who fulfill the inclusive criteria. Non probability, quota sampling technique technique was used .The research tool was developed in English. Modified Smartphone addiction scale (Self-structured checklist) will be used for the assessment of smartphone addiction among Undergraduate Students of Sumandeep Vidyapeeth Vadodara. The finding show that level of smart phone addiction among undergraduate students of Sumandeep Vidyapeeth is 1.0% are strongly addicted, 31.5% are moderately addicted, and 61.0% are less addicted, 6.5% have No addiction. The association between smart phone addictions and selected socio demographic variables was done by Chi Square formula. There is no significant association between smart phone addiction score and selected demographic variables with 0.05 level of significant except age in years and how frequently you use your smartphone of sample’s P calculated value is greater than 0.05 level of significance.

 

 

 

INTRODUCTION:

Now a days, addiction not only refers to drug or substance abuse, but it also refers to gambling, internet, games, or even smartphones. Smartphone addiction can be defined as a being enslaved to smartphone and its related service.

 

The terms such as “Smartphone addiction”, “mobile phone addiction, “problematic mobile phone use”, “mobile phone dependence”, “compulsive mobile phone use” and “mobile phone overuse” , have all been used to describe more or less the same phenomenon, that is, individuals engrossed in their smartphone use to the extent that they neglect other areas of life. The most commonly used terms to describe this kind of addiction is “Smartphone addiction”.¹

 

While smartphone use has been increasing all across economic and age sectors, university students have been seen as one of the most important target markets and the largest consumers group of smartphone services. The technological revolution has provided the world with many inventions. However, every invention has brought with it both comforts and problems. This is so with smartphones. ²

 

According to new research, one third of teenagers describe themselves as “highly addicted” to their smartphones. However, from some people’s opinion, they just regard this phenomenon as normal, they don’t think they became addictive because they believe smartphone is actually part of their life. The question falls on whether using smartphone is a need or just an addiction. It is very hard to distinguish a need or an addiction.³

 

Smartphones addiction gives major drawback in academic performance of students and also gives negative impact of the technology on student’s achievement. Students remained busy writing and sending useless messages, sending missed calls, listening to music and watching movies in a way that wasted their precious time and money. Additionally, one of the symptoms was found to be a lack of concentration among students during class. Smartphones provide free messengers and various kinds of social media applications, which are useful and fun. But these also have side effects, which enable students to send free messages and chat wherever they can get Wi-Fi (Wireless Fidelity) access.⁴

 

NEED FOR THE STUDY:

According to Dr Hussain, a psychology lecturer, “We now use smartphones on a daily basis and for various tasks so being aware of psychological effects is very important.

 

As many as 95 percent Indian respondents fill that their smartphone is very or of critical importance to their daily lives. The survey which was conducted online from august 25 to September 17 across 25 countries from North America, Europe ,South America and Asia Pacific, covered 8,856 employed adults aged 18 years and above. 86 percent of Indians own/use a smartphone. 88 percent, India ranked 5^th in number of people saying they always bring their smartphone with them on leisure trips.⁵

 

According to many of the studies done, following are the negative effects of smartphone addiction: Feeling anxious whenever they does not have their phone in their physical possession. Constantly checking the phone for new texts, coupled with the compulsion to respond immediately. When their phone just vibrated they felt it and yet looking at the phone, they realize it was a false alarm. Phantomcellphonevibrationsyndrome (link is external) is real, and it’s a symptom of addiction. The people are not even listening to other people who are talking with them because they keep checking their Facebook page, tweets and texts. Students will be highly addicted with smartphone resulting in failing in school and poor grades. There are appsthatblocksocialmedia (link is external), which may help. Running to the store for 30 minutes and halfway there they realize that they have forgot their phone and they must turn around to get it.

 

The 2013 mobile consumer habits found 12% use their beloved devices in shower. Worse still, more than 50% found that they still text while driving, which is 6 times more dangerous than drunk driving.⁶

 

OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY:

·         To assess the smartphone addiction among undergraduate students.

·         To find out the association between smartphone addiction among undergraduate studentsand their selected socio-demographic variables.

 

Hypothesis:

·         H₁: There will be significant association between smartphone addiction and sociodemographic variables.

 

MATERIAL AND METHODS:

Research Design:

The descriptive design was chosen for this study.

 

Setting:

The study will be conducted at the selected departments of Sumandeep Vidyapeeth like nursing department, pharmacy department, physiotherapy department, dental department and MBBS department.

 

Population:

The undergraduate students of various department of Sumandeep Vidyapeeth like nursing department, pharmacy department, physiotherapy department, dental department and MBBS department are the target population.

 

Sample:

The sample size is 200 undergraduate students, from selected departments of Sumandeep Vidyapeeth who fulfill the inclusive criteria.

 

Criteria for sample size is 40 students from each department like nursing department, pharmacy department, physiotherapy department, dental department and MBBS department.

 

Sampling Technique:

The samples were selected for this study by Non probability, quota sampling techniques.

 

Data analysis:

Data collected will be analyzed by using descriptive and inferential statistics.

 

Descriptive Statistics:

1.        Frequency and percentage distribution is used to describe the socio demographic variables.

2.        Mean, median, and standard deviation will be used to assess Smartphone Addiction among Undergraduate students

 

Inferential Statistics:

Chi-square test will be used to find out to association between smartphone addictions of undergraduate students with selected socio-demographic variables.

 

FINDINGS:

·         The distribution of undergraduate students from 200 undergraduate students, 63.0% were belongs 20-22 years age group, 83.5% were female, 70% were medium socio-economic status, 70.5% from were nuclear family, 90.5% were Hindu, 68.5% family have more than 30,000 rs income per month, 42.5% were use smartphone every one hours, 58.5% were use smart phone for Social Media (WhatsApp, Twitter, FB, Hike)

·         In this study, it highlights that the overall smartphone addiction score mean percentage is 56.26% with a standard deviation of 16.58.

·         The finding show that level of smartphone addiction among undergraduate students of Sumandeep Vidyapeeth is 1.0% are strongly addicted, 31.5% are moderately addicted, and 61.0% are less addicted, 6.5% have No addiction.

·         The association between smartphone addictions and selected socio demographic variables was done by Chi Square formula. There is no significant association between pre- test smartphone addiction score and selected demographic variables with 0.05 level of significant except age in years and how frequently you use your smartphone of sample’s P calculated value is greater than 0.05 level of significance.

 

CONCLUSION:

We attended selected departments of sumandeep vidyapeeth to assess the level of smartphone addiction among undergraduate students. Here we found that level of smartphone addiction among undergraduate students of Sumandeep Vidyapeeth is 1.0% are strongly addicted, 31.5% are moderately addicted, and 61.0% are less addicted, 6.5% have No addiction.

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Received on 27.07.2016          Modified on 03.09.2016

Accepted on 22.12.2016         © A&V Publications all right reserved