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Journal for Studies in Management and Planning
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ISSN: 2395-0463
Volume 03 Issue 08
July 2017
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Impact of Mobile Addiction on Academic Achievement of
College Students
Mr.Suresh Kumar
M.Phil. Scholar M.D.University, Rohtak (Hr.)
Email-sureshdhakla1234@gmail.com
Abstract: The uses of Smartphone for
educational purpose have increased many
folds among society. Smartphone‘s
introduced another means for the
knowledge lovers to fulfil their thrust and
dreams. The Smartphone provide access to
modern society a massive amount of
educational and learning resources. In
developing countries Smartphone can
easily compensates the limited access of
internet and data access. Smartphone is
useful for education development. The
mobile phone has also the power to
undermine the schools’ authority and
weaken their control over students as well
as affects their level of academic
performances.
Keywords: mobile addiction, Academic
Achievement
Introduction: Phones have greater
impacted in every one's lives to such an
extent that it has become an essential
device for Human like TV, Fridge,
Washing Machine Etc.. And it has also
become a common gadgets owned by
almost every individual worldwide. Latest
mobile phones not only serve's the voice
function, But also other features like
texting, voice calls, camera, video
recorder, internet browsing, music,
multimedia features. Besides, Ring tones,
games, radio, infrared and Bluetooth
connectivity are the features that made
mobile more popular.
Mobile phones has a great Impact
on businessmen and people those are
engaged with internet marketing. I-Phone
and smart phones, Blackberry are ideal for
business. These phones are not only used
for communication but also to enhance
business communication and transactions.
Scheduling interviews, appointments,
sending e-mails, developing business
contacts and having access to work related
documents and contacts. The most of the
basic model mobile phones are affordable
and that has made mobile communication
in raise. Many service providers also offer
user friendly options that make
communication more simple. The latest
mobile brands have started integrating
social networking sites like Face book,
Orkut on mobile phones due to the raise of
popularity of social networking sites
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among young people. The Top branded
mobiles like Nokia, Samsung and Sony
Ericsson, Have all ready equipped with
social networking in addition to other
features like MP3s, memo recording,
multimedia features, games and
connectivity options.
Mobile phones have become ever- growing and important way for effective
communication. As today world is Busy
and fast moving, Mobile phones have
adopted well and its being a best way to
communicate and Keep interacting with
friends. Latest mobile has taken over the
traditional modes of communication.
Mobile phones have a greater
impact at present people and handsets that
offer entertainment, internet options, email
facility and social networking facilities are
a blessing for mobile technology. The
mobile internet has made a replacement to
PDA, Computer, laptop. This indicates
mobile phones has great importance in the
life of socio – economic development.
With free trade treaties with different
countries, many smaller brands from
obscure markets now fight for consumer
space against the usual suspects like
Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Motorola and
Samsung. This fierce competition has
brought down the prices of mobile phones
drastically in the Indian market and thus
thee making everyone mobile literate. Not
only this bring down communication cost
toward lower level.
With the emergence of free SMS
concept, the usage of mobile phones has
taken a new meaning. Now more and more
people are logging into web sites that
offers free SMS services and optimizing
their mobile spending strategies. These
web sites provide the best SMS services to
consumers, who are looking for a one stop
shop for their communication needs. These
SMS services can be used anywhere in the
world and is also a wonderful worldwide
SMS service integrated in a user friendly
interface. Therefore mobile phone has
great importance in the life of individuals
and business. Entertainment too has been
made wireless. Media communication is an
ever growing sector. This growing media
needs users to connect with them in the
easiest possible manner for they are
dependent on the users and vice-versa.
Thus we have phones in India which have
dedicated applications of downloading and
listening to online music. Even gamers can
now connect to a gaming portal and play
with different users through their mobiles.
Live TV has been introduced into the
phones, to bring the latest news,
happenings and your favorite programs
right into a customer’s hands, at the click
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of a button and all this being on the go. In
this context also mobile phone is very
important instrument.
With the world becoming a smaller
place and businesses becoming integrated
and interconnected, the mobile phones of
today have started supporting various
emailing interfaces to keep the user
connected to his business. The e-mailing
options have been made completely
mobile by also allowing the user to attach
files and documents he has worked upon in
his Office and business applications,
which are also installed onto his mobile.
Technologies like GPRS, EDGE, and
Bluetooth etc. have made wireless
communication all the more easier and
comfortable for the user. As if all these
were not enough, the zeal to make the
device more user-friendly introduced Wi- Fi enabled phones which can connect to
the internet over the selected Wi-Fi hot
spots. Even in India, Wi-Fi spots are being
built in colleges, campuses, coffee shops
and business parks. Thus the Wi-Fi
enabled phones are the next in target for
the users seeking to go with time. This has
enhanced the importance of mobile phones
in business and non – business area.
Objectives:
O1 To compare the academic
achievement among college
students having high and low
mobile addiction.
O2 To compare the academic
achievement among male and
female college students having
high mobile addiction.
O3 To compare the academic
achievement among male and
female college students having low
mobile addiction.
O4 To compare the academic
achievement among arts and
commerce college students having
high mobile addiction.
O5 To compare the academic
achievement among arts and
commerce college students having
low mobile addiction.
Hypotheses:
HO1 There is no significant difference in
academic achievement among
college students having high and
low mobile addiction.
HO2 There is no significant difference in
academic achievement among male
and female college students having
high mobile addiction.
HO3 There is no significant difference in
academic achievement among male
and female college students having
low mobile addiction.
