Smartphone Addiction among College Students

Abstract

The present study focus on smartphone addiction among the students who are undergoing undergraduate course of government colleges under Manipur University. The objective of the study is to study smartphone addiction of college students with respect to gender, stream and category. In this study, the investigator has adopted descriptive survey method as method of the study. The investigator selected 400 government college students in Thoubal District as the sample of the study by using simple random sampling technique. For collection of the data, the investigator used Smartphone Addiction Scale developed by Dr. Vijayshri and Masaud Ansari. The main findings of the study is that there exist an average level of smartphone addiction among the students of government colleges in Thoubal district.