scholarly journals A new idea for assessing mobile phone addiction

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anwesha Das
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Tracking System ◽  
Time Duration ◽  
Present Survey ◽  
Actual Usage ◽  
Mobile Phone Addiction ◽  
Mobile Phone Usage ◽  
Single Question ◽  
Specific Score

Objective:Internet / mobile phone addiction has become a major concern in today’s world. Current diagnosis methods are based on questionnaire survey. This typically involves asking the person concerned around 15-30 questions. Each response is allotted a specific score, and the range in which the final sum of the scores lies is used to determine his/ her level of addiction. These tests assume that the respondent is answering the questions honestly and that he/she has an exact idea about his/ her usage durations. In the present work, the validity of these assumptions is questioned.Methods: Mobile phone usage is considered as a case study here. In this work, a group of 40 students in the age group of 13-18 (male= 52.5%, female= 47.5%) are surveyed. These students are asked a single question of how much do they think they use their phone. This information is compared with their actual phone usage times (obtained through the inbuilt usage tracking system of the phones, or similar such Apps). Conclusion:Based on the present survey, it is found that on an average, the participants use their phones for 1.4 times longer than they think they do. The disparity between the estimated and actual usage time duration forms the basis of the proposed approach for assessing the level of mobile phone addiction.

scholarly journals Investigation of Students’ Mobile Phone Usage and Influences towards Their Mobile Learning Adoption: A Case Study in Myanmar

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 43
Author(s):  
Mon Mon The ◽  
Tsuyoshi Usagawa
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Portable Devices ◽  
Digital Information ◽  
Learning Readiness ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Physical Learning Environment ◽  
Mobile Phone Usage ◽  
Readiness To Adopt

<p>Due to today’s interconnected and technology-driven world, a physical learning environment is transforming into a virtual or online location where learners can make active learning with portable devices. There is no doubt that an increasing number of students, who have mobile devices which handle digital information and facilitate their mobility. As an integral part of students’ daily lives, the universities and schools in higher education are also trying to equip with technology‘s changes and to solve the demand of their learners, and to adopt m-learning. This study learns the mobile phone usage of Myanmar student. In addition, it constructs a key part which investigates the students’ m-learning readiness and evaluates the influences on their attitudes to use m-learning. And a hypothesized model was introduced to investigate learners’ readiness to adopt m-learning. The empirical study is conducted by analyzing data collected as paper-based documents from 1024 participants. The findings advocate the eleven hypotheses which have positive impact to students’ m-learning readiness and their intension to use m-learning.</p>

scholarly journals Use of Mobile Phone and In-Vehicle Interaction: A Case study among selected students in Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 115-132
Author(s):  
Olabisi Olapoju
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
University Students ◽  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Negative Correlation ◽  
Mobile Phone Use ◽  
Mobile Phone Usage

Mobile phone use among university students is now pervasively altering their social interaction with others. The study investigated the influence of mobile phone use among commuting University Students on their interaction with co-travellers and the environment through which they travel. Three hundred students of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria were purposively sampled to respond to a 10-minute questionnaire. The questionnaire contained questions such as ownership of mobile phones, type and number of phones owned, frequency of usage and the influence of mobile phone usage during transit on interaction between the students and their co-travelers and with the environment they traveled through. Results showed that all the respondents possessed at least one mobile phone. In addition, results revealed a negative correlation between time of use of mobile phone and interaction with co-travelers (α=0.05, r= -0.039) and no significant correlation between length of use of mobile phone and interaction with the environment (α=0.05, r=0.079). The study established that mobile phone intrusiveness has an influence on students' interaction during commuting.

Mobile Phone Dependency and Effect on the Academic Lifestyle of Female Students at a University: A Case Study of a University of Technology

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Josephat Muntangadura ◽  
Barbra Mazarire
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Cross Sectional Survey ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Mobile Phone Use ◽  
University Of Technology ◽  
Mobile Phone Usage

Mobile phones are now being used by all members of society, men, women and the children. When members of society use them it affects their lives, thus the research is interested in exploring how mobile phone usage affects the lifestyles of female university students. The study explored the dependency and effect of mobile phone usage among female students at a university of technology. A cross-sectional survey was carried at Tshwane University of Technology (TUT), Soshanguve South campus. The study focused on the following objectives: exploring the classification of female university students who own cell phones, establishing the general phenomena influencing the use of mobile phones by female university students at a university of technology and perceived gratification and finally establishing the patterns of mobile phone use by female students and the lifestyle patterns generated thereafter. The study collected data from 100 female students at the institution using a survey. The findings indicated that the main reasons female university students at TUT use a mobile phone are for socialising, sharing academic work and solutions as well as for safety and privacy purposes. The major reason for choice of brand was seen to be usability and price. The respondents showed some signs of addiction to their mobile phones. The findings of this study are beneficial to marketers of mobile phones in Pretoria and the rest of the country; it is also useful to mobile phone developers, universities, parents, and researchers exploring mobile phone adoption and usage pattern in a developing country such as South Africa.

A Study on Mobile Phone Addiction and Physical Pain Based on Characteristics of Mobile Phone Usage

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 1191-1195
Author(s):  
Young-Soon Choi
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Correlation Study ◽  
Physical Pain ◽  
Mobile Phone Use ◽  
Mobile Phone Addiction ◽  
Daily Data ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Mobile Phone Usage ◽  
Loss Control

This study is a descriptive correlation study to identify the characteristics of mobile phone usage, mobile phone addiction, and physical pain in university students and to identify the correlation between variables. The degree of addiction to the mobile phone was 32.10 points, and pathological commitment is 1.86 points, living disorder 1.79 points, the loss control 2.19 points, compulsive symptoms 1.72 points. Subjects who experienced physical pain mobile phone use was 39.1%. Physical pain was lower in order of wrist, finger, neck, shoulder, and arm. There was a statistically significant difference between mobile phone addicts and women, according to the average daily data usage time, the mobile phone addiction score of the group with high usage time was high. In the case of physical pain, it has been found that the use of mobile phones for a long period of time due to loss of control among the mobile phone addiction causes the most physical pain. The purpose of this study was to investigate the characteristics of mobile phone use, mobile phone addiction symptom and physical pain in university students.

scholarly journals Mobile Phone Dependence among Undergraduate Students of a Medical College of Eastern Nepal: A Descriptive Cross-sectional Study

2020 ◽  
Vol 58 (224) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kriti Thapa ◽  
Sami Lama ◽  
Rita Pokharel ◽  
Rambha Sigdel ◽  
Surya Prasad Rimal
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Sectional Study ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Medical College ◽  
Mobile Phone Addiction ◽  
Mobile Phone Usage ◽  
One Year

Introduction: Mobile phones are becoming increasingly indispensable in daily life of the studentswhich has resulted in mobile phone dependence. The objective of the study was to find the prevalenceof mobile phone dependence among undergraduate students of a medical college of Eastern Nepal. Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted from October 2016 to March 2017on a total of 390 undergraduate students aged between 17 and 25 years using stratified samplingtechnique. Students using mobile phones for more than one year was included in the study. Studentswere requested to complete a pretested self-administered questionnaire which comprised theirsocio-demographic characteristics, pattern of mobile phone usage and mobile phone addiction indexdeveloped by Leung. Results: The prevalence of mobile phone dependence among the undergraduate students was foundto be 85 (21.8%). Mobile phone dependence was found to be related with time spend on mobile; callsper day, money spend on recharge per month and years of ownership of mobile phone. There wasno difference between males and females with regard to mobile phone dependence. Conclusions: The present study found that mobile phone dependence was common among theundergraduate medical students. These results suggest the need to develop educational programmeto educate the students to use mobile phone meaningfully.

Understanding Mobile Phone Usage While Driving

2011 ◽  
pp. 173-194
Author(s):  
Ronan de Kervenoael ◽  
Canan Devletkusu
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Emerging Market ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Alternative Communication ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
The Public ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Dynamic Factors ◽  
Mobile Phone Usage

In emerging markets, the amount of mobile communication and the number of occasions mobile phones are used are increasing. More and more settings appropriate or not for mobile phone usage are being exposed. Although prohibited by many governments, there is evidence that use of new mobile devices while driving are somehow becoming current everyday practice, hence legitimatizing usage for many users. Dominant dangerous behavior in the absence of enforced legal framework is being deployed and has become routine for many m-users. This chapter adopts a qualitative case study approach (20 cases) to examine the public transport drivers’ motives, logic and legitimacy processes. The question which these issues raise in the light of advancing m-technologies is: How do, in the context of emerging market, undesired emerging routines enactment get to be reflected upon and voluntarily disregarded to maximize the benefits of m-technologies while minimizing their drawbacks? Findings point out at multiple motives for usage including external social pressure through the ubiquitous 24/7 usage of m-technology, lack of alternative communication protocol, real time need for action and from an internal perspectives boredoms, lack of danger awareness, blurring of the boundaries between personal and business life and lack of job fulfillment are uncovered as key factors. As secondary dynamic factors such as education, drivers work’ histories, impunity, lack of strong consumer opposition appear central in shaping the development of the routines.

Transparent Classrooms

2013 ◽  
pp. 142-152
Author(s):  
Carla Ganito
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Phone ◽  
School Administrators ◽  
National Level ◽  
Interesting Case ◽  
Global Context ◽  
Uptake Rates ◽  
Mobile Phone Usage ◽  
Mobile Culture ◽  
The Impact

This article analyzes the use of the mobile phone in Portuguese classrooms in order to examine new practices of disclosure and transparency. A literature review provides a global context of the nature of the mobile phone, and contextualizes an overview of the current usage trends in Portugal. The high uptake rates of mobile phone usage in Portugal means that this country can be considered an interesting case study for the usage of mobile phones in educational settings. Evidence of a young mobile culture gathered in recent research studies conducted at the national level and on a qualitative case study of high-school teachers, provides a basis for a practical discussion of the impact of the mobile phone on the Portuguese education system. Building on the views from different actors- students, teachers, parents, and school administrators- the paper closes with the proposition of the mobile phone as a valid educational tool that requires new skills and strategies for a successful integration.

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