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| Published: March 02, 2018

A Study of Mobile Phone Addiction among Kashmiri Students with Respect to Gender

Mohammad Aslam Malik

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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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