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Title EFFECT OF SMART PHONE ON SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR OF STUDENTS AT UNIVERSITY LEVEL

Author(s) MEHVISH NAJEEB RAJA

Abstract This study is started to find out the effect of smart phone usage on social behavior of students at university level and usage of smart phone effects on cognitive, social, and environmental factor of university students. This study intended to examine the differences by use of smart phone on social behavior of males and females’ students at university level. This study is descriptive in nature with the survey approach and quantitative research design. Data is collected from 3 public universities of Azad Jammu and Kashmir. 135 males and 145 females are selected through purposive sampling techniques from total population. The researcher formulated conceptual framework by taking three factors of social behavior by Bandura (1986). Self-developed questionnaire is used for data collection. Questionnaire applied after validity and reliability conformation. Validity is confirmed by experts of the relevant field. Reliability analysis is conducted for measurement of Cronbach alpha for scale which is .80. Descriptive statistic is run which identified the demographic variables of university students. Three regression analyses are run for examine the effect of smart phone usage on cognitive, social, and environmental factor and for testing the fourth hypothesis independent sample t-test is run by using SPSS. Findings of this study is that smart phone usage had a significantly and positively effect on cognitive, social, and environmental factor, and smart phone usage effects both males and female at same level and frequency. Therefore, it is recommended that this study is helpful for researchers, universities, administration, and for policy makers.

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Department Education

Language English

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Description Most of the previous study focuses on positive and negative effects by using a smart phone, human behavior, social life, or only one variable of social behavior of students by using the smart phone but the main focus of this learning was to assess the effects of smart phone use on students’ academic learning needs, communication between student with student and students with the teacher after searching learning material, social interaction between students during lecture and time management by using the smart phones and also find out the effect on the environment with the use of the smart phone. There is a dire need to research for such things to address the new generation at the university level to make them more conscious about their health with their studies