Effects of Smart Phone Usage and Its Addiction Among College Students in Nagpur City

Abstract

In today’s scenario, Internet and mobile phones especially smart phones are playing a vital role among students in their education and daily life’s. The use of smart phone became very popular for its effective educational, behavioural and entertaining features in their daily lifestyle and attitude towards their studies. However, usages of smart phone have positive and negative effects among students. More usage of smart phone generally makes the students addicted to it and that effect on student’s health, behaviour, attitude, thinking and academic performance. Therefore, the aim of the current study is to find out the various patterns of smart phone usage in their day to day life. And also aims are to identify the factors that affect the level of smart phone addiction to the students and its pros and cons on their overall academic performance and physical and mental health