This is why college students can't keep their hands off their mobile phones

Technology has been infused into our lives so much so that it gets difficult to imagine a life without smartphones. The moment they enter early adolescence they raise a demand for smartphones. According to a recent study, on an average college going students check their mobile phones more than 150 times a day.

THE RESEARCH:

Aligarh Muslim University and the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) together went to over 20 central universities and interviewed 200 students.
The study conducted by researchers at AMU has been funded by the ICSSR with an aim to understand various facets of smartphone dependency and addiction among college-going students.
The title of the research paper is "Smartphone Dependency, Hedonism and Purchase Behaviour: Implications for Digital India Initiatives".
"Anxiety and fear of missing out on information make university students check their mobile devices as many as 150 times a day on an average, an activity which can have adverse effects on the student's health as well as academics.
"Only 26 per cent of the respondents said they use smartphones primarily to make calls. The remaining respondents use smartphones for other purposes such as accessing social networking sites, Google searches and for entertainment such as watching movies," said Mohammed Naved Khan, the Project Director.

THE RESULT:

At least 14 per cent of the students use smartphones for three hours or less in a day while around 63 per cent of them use it for four to seven hours daily.
"It came as a shock to us that around 23 per cent (of students) use the devices for more than eight hours a day," Khan added.

WHY ARE STUDENTS GLUED TO THEIR SMARTPHONES?

Well, the answer is quite obvious! Countless apps can be downloaded for free from Android and iOS portals.
The study clearly mentioned that since it is easy for the students to download these apps and use, the use of smartphones has increased in past few decades.
Almost all the apps run on the internet and these days college campuses and public libraries provide free WiFi to the students. Also, the data charges are negligible after the introduction of Reliance Jio.

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