Smart Phone: Students Are Too Much Addicted To It - ICMR Study

Smart mobile phones are so much prevalent in our day to day activity that we mostly do not want to be away from it whether in office during work or interaction with colleague or at home sitting with family members .if we go for younger generation particularly those who study in higher classes in school, colleges and university, data is alarming. An average, a college student in India checks his mobile phone over 150 times a day, according to a study conducted by Aligarh Muslim University and the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR).

The research, titled "Smartphone Dependency, Hedonism and Purchase Behaviour: Implications for Digital India Initiatives," has been conducted in 20 central universities, where 200 students each were interviewed."Anxiety and fear of missing out on information make university students check their mobile devices as many as 150 times a day on an…