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| Published: March 30, 2017
The Study of Mental Health and Mobile Phone Addiction among Adolescences
Ph.D. Research Student, Department of Psychology, North Maharashtra University, Jalgaon, Maharashtra, India Google Scholar More about the auther
Ph.D. Guide, Department of Psychology, North Maharashtra University, Jalgaon, Maharashtra, India Google Scholar More about the auther
DIP: 18.01.185/20170402
DOI: 10.25215/0402.185
ABSTRACT
Aim: According to the world health organization, health means the person is not only free from any physical and psychological illness but (s)he should be fit socially too as well as no health without mental health. The present study aimed to investigate the level and difference of mental health and mobile phone addiction among adolescences. Methods: This study was done on 400 adolescences (200 boy and 200girl students) through random sampling technique. Mithila Mental Health Status Inventory and mobile phone addiction were used to collect data. Data were analyzed by using Mean, S.D, t-test and f-test. Results: Result proves it there is interaction affect among gender and level of mobile phone addiction in terms of mental health as well as no significant difference in mental health among adolescence between low mobile phone addiction and average mobile phone addiction level.
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© 2017 Prabhakar Y, Hari K
Received: March 09, 2017; Revision Received: March 27, 2017; Accepted: March 30, 2017
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ISSN 2348-5396
ISSN 2349-3429
18.01.185/20170402
10.25215/0402.185
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Published in Volume 04, Issue 2, January-March, 2017