ABSTRACT

Cell phones have turned out to be a nearly vital portion of day-to-day life. Cell phone overuse has become wide problem in the world. Internet Addiction is a recent occurrence that looms to advance into a main communal well-being problem in the near forthcoming in world. It is persuading the life of the public specifically students. Aims: 1) To assess the level of cell phone overuse and internet addiction among nursing students selected college. 2) To determine the relationship between cell phone overuse and internet addiction among nursing students selected college. 3) To associate the cell phone overuse and internet addiction among nursing students at selected college. Materials and Methods: Research approach was quantitative and design was descriptive research design. The samples were elected by means of convenient sampling method and comprised of 231 nursing students. The instruments of the study were: Section A - Demographic variables; Section B – Cell phone Overuse Scale (COS) was used to assess the mobile phone addiction. It was established by Jenaro et al.; Section C - Internet Addiction Test (IAT) scale to evaluate the internet addiction among nursing students, devised by Dr. Kimberly Young. Both the scale encompasses of 20 items. Information collected were analysed by using descriptive and inferential statistics. Results: The results show that there is high significant correlation between “Cell Phone Overuse” and “Internet Addiction”. Conclusion: Nursing students have to recognize the significance of Cell phone use aswell as for beginning and upholding public effort to avoid the damaging effects of overuse and internet addiction. Keywords: Cell phone overuse, Internet addiction, world, Nursing students
Publication date: 01/08/21

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https://doi.org/10.31032/IJBPAS/2021/10.8.5563