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College students in India check smartphones over 150 times a day, contend study
- Updated: May 20, 2018
At slightest 14 per cent of a students use smartphones for 3 hours or reduction in a day while around 63 per cent of them use it for 4 to 7 hours daily
Illustration/Amit Bandre
New Delhi: On an average, a college tyro in India checks his mobile phone over 150 times a day, according to a investigate conducted by Aligarh Muslim University and a Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR).
The research, patrician “Smartphone Dependency, Hedonism and Purchase Behaviour: Implications for Digital India Initiatives”, has been conducted in 20 executive universities, where 200 students any were interviewed.
“Anxiety and fear of blank out on information make university students check their mobile inclination as many as 150 times a day on an average, an activity that can have inauspicious effects on a students’ health as good as academics. “Only 26 per cent of a respondents pronounced they use smartphones essentially to make calls. The remaining respondents use smartphones for other functions such as accessing amicable networking sites, Google searches and for celebration such as examination movies,” pronounced Mohammed Naved Khan, a Project Director.
At slightest 14 per cent of a students use smartphones for 3 hours or reduction in a day while around 63 per cent of them use it for 4 to 7 hours daily.
“It came as a startle to us that around 23 per cent (of students) use a inclination for some-more than 8 hours a day,” Khan added.
According to a study, eighty per cent of a students possess a mobile phone and many of them cite smartphones overdue to preference in a designation of applications, horde of features, and palliate of use and also work as affordable substitutes for a computer. The investigate conducted by researchers during AMU has been saved by a ICSSR with an aim to know several facets of smartphone dependency and obsession among college-going students.
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