Assess the Level of Smartphone Usage and Dependence Among College Students Case Study

Purpose: Studying smartphone usage and dependence among college students serves several important purposes like Understanding Behavioural Patterns by examining how often and in what ways students use their smartphones, researchers can identify patterns of behaviour, including the times of day or contexts in which smartphone use is most prevalent.Social dynamics like, Smartphones influence social interactions and relationships.Studying their usage can shed light on how digital communication affects face-to-face interactions, social skills, and the quality of relationships among students.Health Implications like Investigating smartphone use can highlight potential health risks, such as sleep disturbances, eye strain.Design/ Methodology/ Approach: The study is descriptive and empirical in nature.Both Primary and secondary data are collected for the study.Primary data are collected from 66 respondents through a standardised tool which has 22 questions on smartphone usage and dependence, with five-point rating scale, the data was collected among UG and PG college going students.Respondents were selected based on a random sampling technique.Secondary data are collected from various journals, articles from google scholar. Findings and Results:The main objective of the study was to study the difference in smartphone usage among UG and PG college students.The hypothesis of the study stated that there is no significant difference in smartphone usage between UG and PG students (null hypothesis) The data was collected from 66 college students in which 33 were under graduate students and 33 were post graduate studying college students.'t' test was conducted in order to find the difference between two groups and the results indicated that the under graduate students had more smartphone usage and dependence that the postgraduate students.