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| Published: March 02, 2018
A Study of Mobile Phone Addiction among Kashmiri Students with Respect to Gender
Research Scholar, Dept. of Psychology, Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University Aurangabad (MH), India Google Scholar More about the auther
DIP: 18.01.055/20180601
DOI: 10.25215/0601.055
ABSTRACT
Mobile phone usage is so strongly integrated into young people‘s behaviour that symptoms of behavioural addiction, such as cell phone usage interrupting their day –to-day activities. The Present research Aims to study mobile phone addiction among Kashmiri students with respect to gender. The sample of the study was selected by Proportionate Stratified Random Sampling method which included 130 (65 male and 65 female) students from Degree college Baramulla (J&K).Tools used for the research was Mobile phone addiction Test by Dr. S.Velayudhan and Dr. S. Srividya. Mean, SD, and t-test were used to analyze the data. The research finding reveals that the level of mobile phone addiction is high among Kashmiri male students and it is moderate in Kashmiri female students. It was also found that there is a significant difference between the mobile phone addiction among Kashmiri male and female students.
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This is an Open Access Research distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any Medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
2018 © Malik M A
Received: January 16, 2018; Revision Received: March 01, 2018; Accepted: March 02, 2018
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ISSN 2348-5396
ISSN 2349-3429
18.01.055/20180601
10.25215/0601.055
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Published in Volume 06, Issue 1, January-March, 2018