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| Published: November 25, 2017
A Study of Mobile Phone Addiction and Mental Health among Adolescent Girls Studying in Various Streams
Ph.D Research student, Dept. of Psychology, Dr. Babasaheb Ambadkar Marathwada, University Aurangabad, Maharashtra, India
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Assistant Professor, Dept. of Psychology, Government Vidarbha Institute, Science & Humanities, Amravati, India
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DIP: 18.01.099/20170501
DOI: 10.25215/0501.099
ABSTRACT
Present research aims to study mobile phone addiction and mental health among adolescent girls studying in various streams. The study employed survey method of research. Total 150 adolescent girls studying in Arts, Science and Commerce stream of Aurangabad city was selected by Random Sampling method as the sample of the study. Sample consists of 50 adolescent girls from each stream. Tools used for the research were Mobile phone addiction test by Dr.S.Velayudhan & Dr.S.Srividya and Mental Health Check –list (MHC) by Pramod Kumar .Statistical measures used for data analysis was Mean, SD, and ANNOVA and Pearson’s Product Moment Method of Correlation. Results revealed that there is significant difference between the level mobile phone addiction of adolescent girls studying in various streams. No significant difference was found between the level mental health among adolescent girls studying in various streams. Positive and significant correlation was found between mobile phone addiction & mental health which predicts that higher the level of mobile phone addiction lower will be the mental health. Suggestions were given to reduce mobile phone addiction and improve mental health among adolescent girls
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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.
© 2017 Patel S A & Puri P A
Received: October 25, 2017; Revision Received: November 22, 2017; Accepted: November 25, 2017
Shaikh Ajhar Shaikh Abdul Wahed Patel @ patelajhar2012@gmail.com
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ISSN 2348-5396
ISSN 2349-3429
18.01.099/20170501
10.25215/0501.099
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Published in Volume 05, Issue 1, October-December, 2017