Use and Addiction of Smartphone in Adolescence Students in Bangladesh: Social Networking and Gaming Service

Authors

  • Somaresh Kumar Mondal Department of Statistics, Mawlana Bhashani Science and Technology University, Santosh, Tangail-1902, Bangladesh
  • Gowranga Kumar Paul Department of Statistics, Mawlana Bhashani Science and Technology University, Santosh, Tangail-1902, Bangladesh
  • Md. Aminur Islam Department of Statistics, Mawlana Bhashani Science and Technology University, Santosh, Tangail-1902, Bangladesh
  • Masuma Pervin Sharna Department of Statistics, Mawlana Bhashani Science and Technology University, Santosh, Tangail-1902, Bangladesh
  • Muna Akter Department of Statistics, Mawlana Bhashani Science and Technology University, Santosh, Tangail-1902, Bangladesh
  • Md. Rashidul Islam Department of Statistics, Mawlana Bhashani Science and Technology University, Santosh, Tangail-1902, Bangladesh

Keywords:

Smartphone, adolescence, social networking service, gaming addiction

Abstract

Smartphone becomes most popular in adolescence students for special feature like social networking and gaming service. Although smartphone are useful and convenient, adolescences are dependent on smartphone more and more for unnecessary communication. This study attempts to identify use patterns of smartphone and enlightened factors of the smartphone addiction in adolescence student in Bangladesh. For this cross-sectional study, 385 adolescence students were selected by stratified sampling with proportional allocation and also use a structured questionnaire has been developed to gathered data from adolescence students. More than 50% early adolescence students spend at least 3 hours on smartphone in a day for purpose of social media like you tube, facebook whereas 80.9% late adolescence students spend time on playing online game on smartphone.More than half (51.9%) of the parents encourages their early adolescence child use smartphone whereas friends encourages more (78.3%) late adolescence students.

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2020-03-20

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Mondal, S. K. ., Paul, G. K. ., Islam, M. A. ., Sharna, M. P. ., Akter, M. ., & Islam, M. R. . (2020). Use and Addiction of Smartphone in Adolescence Students in Bangladesh: Social Networking and Gaming Service. International Journal of Sciences: Basic and Applied Research (IJSBAR), 50(2), 65–74. Retrieved from https://www.gssrr.org/index.php/JournalOfBasicAndApplied/article/view/10865

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