A Study to Assess the Level of Addiction and Attitude to Mobile Phone Use among Students of a Selected College – Chennai.
Journal Title: IOSR Journal of Nursing and health Science - Year 2018, Vol 7, Issue 4
Abstract
The study was conducted to assess the level of addiction and attitude towards mobile phone use among students of a selected college – Chennai. The overall aim of the study is to find out the various aspects of mobile phone addiction, and the level of mobile phone addiction and attitude towards mobile phone use among the students in a selected college. The objectives of the study were to assess the level of mobile phone addiction among college students, to assess the attitude of college students towards mobile phones, to assess the correlation between the level of addiction and attitude towards mobile phone use among the college students, to associate the level of addiction of college students to mobile phone use with the demographic variables and to associate the attitude of college students towards mobile phone use with demographic variables. The conceptual framework was developed based on NOLA J PENDER’S HPM (1982). CV for the tool has been obtained from experts. The reliability of the tool is 0.89 for addiction and 0.96 for attitude. After the pilot study the data collection procedure proceeded. The study was conducted in Loyola College of arts and science, Chennai. The data collected from the subjects were analyzed using descriptive (Frequency, percentage, mean and standard deviation), ‘t’ test and inferential (chi square) statistical methods. The study showed that 73(52.1%) of them had moderate addiction, 57(40.7%) of them had mild addiction and 10(7.1%) of them had severe addiction. showed that 107 (76.4%) of sample had moderately favourable attitude, 30 (21.4%) of sample had favourable attitude and 3 (2.1%) had unfavourable attitude towards mobile phone use. The ‘r’ value 0.02 shows there is weak positive correlation between the level of addiction and attitude and the ‘p’ value of 0.86 shows there is no significant correlation between mobile phone addiction and attitude. There is significant association between the demographic variables such as year of study, type of mobile phone currently using, hours of usage of mobile phones per day, number of mobile phones currently using, number of sim cards currently using and the level of addiction to mobile phone. It indicates that mobile phone addiction among college students is influenced by the type of mobile phone, the hours of usage per day, number of mobile phones and number of sim cards used. The study concluded that more than half of the college students had moderate level of mobile phone addiction and two third of students had moderately favourable attitude towards mobile phone use.
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Jeen Pragash . L
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