Covid-19 Pandemic And Smart Phone Addiction: A Descriptive Survey On Secondary School Students

Abstract

The present study mainly focused to study the level of Smart phone addiction among the
Secondary School students of Sonitpur district. This study was mainly a descriptive survey
conducted on sample of 84 secondary school students (40 male and 44 female) who were
selected with the help of stratified random sampling technique. For this study the
researchers adopted “Smart Phone Addiction Scale” developed by Dr. Vijayshri and Dr.
Masaud Ansari. The finding of the study revealed that most of the students have high level of
Smart phone addiction during the COVID-19 pandemic situation. Significant differences
were observed between the students on the basis of the gender and locality. The male
students were found highly smart phone addicted as compared to the female counterparts.
Similarly it is examined that the students from urban area were preferably more prone to
smart phone addiction in comparison with that of students from rural area.