Mobile Phone usage Among College Girls in Kumbakonam Taluk

 

S. Abirama Sundari¹, S. Geetha²

¹M.Sc., Applied Geography Govt. College for Women (A), Kumbakonam.

²Asst. Prof. of Geography, Govt.College for Women (A), Kumbakonam.

 

ABSTRACT:

Mobile phone plays a vital role in communication system. In recent years, mobile gives the world in to our hands. In digital India, Smart phone is became a necessity for regular life because all activities are made by mobile phone like mobile banking, on line purchasing, mobile billing etc., The students using mobile phones for their academic activities. The mobile phone provided facilities in mobile calling, sms and video calling.  The mobile phones providing facilities like internet, e-mails, games, social Medias like face-book, Twitter, You tube, dictionary, e books and etc. The users of the mobiles are under the age group of 17 to 25. This study is made to examine the behavior towards the usage of mobile phones. The primary data collected through questionnaire method. College students of first, second, final year and PG students were participated this questionnaire survey. Considered as population and simple random sampling technique were used to select the sample of 300 students. The collected data were analyzed with the help of SPSS tool. 

 

 

INTRODUCTION:

In recent years cell phone is an important device for all. Now Tamil Nadu government encourages the school Teachers for smart classes by using Smart phones. The students using mobile phones for their academic activities. The base of mobile was started in 1876 which the “Telephone” was invented by Alexander Graham Bell. He was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. The world’s first mobile phone call was made on April3,1973, when “Martin Cooper” a senior engineer at Motorola, called a vival telecommunication company and informed them he was speaking via a mobile phone. The phone cooper used photo type device, you got 30 minutes of talk – time and it took around 10 hours to change. In 1983, Motorola released its first commercial mobile phone known as the “Motorola Dyna TAC 8000x”.  

 

This study focused on the impact of the mobile phone usage among the college students of kumbakonam taluk. Take consideration of female students in the age group of 17-25 years from urban and rural backgrounds were selected at random.  The questionnaire was framed on the basis of testing of demographic, Economic, Mental and physical health systems.

 

REVIEW OF LITERATURE:

1.       Krithika.M (2013) et.al The study also highlights the importance of understanding the cognitive behavioral association that young people have with their mobile phones. According to analysis poor academic performance due to their extent usage of mobile phone.

 

2.       Naveenta Gupta, Sonia Garg1, Khushdeep Arora (2015) et.al. Nighttime usage of mobile phone was highly significantly (p o 0.0001) associated with difficulty in waking up, waking time tiredness, decline in study habits, difficulty in concentration, increase in missed classes, and going late for classes. Total time spent on mobile phones was significantly (po0.05) associated with waking time tiredness and difficulty in waking up and highly significantly (po0.001) with decline in study habits, increase in missed classes, and going late for classes.

 

3.       Haruna Rabiu (2016) et.al, revealed that mobile phone usage significantly influence academic performance among male and female senior secondary school students, age difference was not a significant factor in mobile phone usage on academic performance among senior secondary school students  parent’s occupation was not a significant factor in mobile phone usage on academic performance among senior secondary school students and that the frequency of mobile phone usage does significantly influence academic performance among male and female senior secondary school students.

 

4.       S. Bhuvaneswari (2016) et.al Cell phone usage is so strongly integrated into young people’s behavior that symptoms of behavioral addiction, such as cell phone usage interrupting their day –to-day activities. Despite of the positive benefits like using cell phone to connect/call family, friends, etc, this study also identifies the characteristics of those teens and young adult at risk of developing an over involvement with their cell phones.

 

5.       Dr. Alpana Vaidya, Vinayak Pathak, and Ajay Vaidya et.al., (2016) said that majority of the college students are using the smart phones and there are not gender wise distribution in use of mobile phone. Also most of the students prefer prepaid card over post paid card. Regarding the gender differences on use of mobile phone for internet use, for internet surfing, making call, and SMS and all these three, gender differences were not found. Overall it was found that desire to get connected is very important factor in mobile phone usage which was reflected in preference for social networking sights. Also use of mobile is more at night as compared to morning. It was also found that students prefer 3G phones. Gender differences were not observed in time of usage of mobile phone and data usage. Android operating system is the most popular among the college students. Regarding the brand Samsung is the most popular brand among the college youth.

 

6.       Shakeel Iqbal, Muhammad Naeem Khan and Imran Riaz Malik (2017) et.al., overall, students have a very positive attitude towards m-learning; however, the perceptions of Arts and Engineering students were found significantly different from those of Medical and Business students.

 

7.       K. Aravind (2018) et al., have been suggesting the assessment of gadgets addiction and its impact on health among undergraduates.

 

I. Demographic Characteristics of the Study

S. No	Name of the characters	Frequency
1.	Age a)17-18 b)18-19 c)19-20 d)<20	36 54 91 119
2.	Students occupation a) Working b) Student c) Part time	1 291 8
3.	Students Income a) <3000 b) 3000-5000 c) >5000 d) Nil	4 2 3 291
4.	Occupation of Father a) Daily wages b) Private c) Government d) Self Employment	219 14 19 48
5.	Income of father a) <10000 b) 10000-15000 c) >15000	148 86 66
6.	Occupation of Mother a) Home maker b)Daily wages c)private d) Government	266 25 5 4

 

39.7% of students have been using the mobile phones at the age of above 20.  Then 30.3% of students came to the age of 19-20.  97% of students are not working. They depend on their parents.3% were part time workers. They are earning a monthly income of Rs 3000 to 5000.

73% of fathers are daily wages. Their monthly income below 10000.  Because they can’t spent extra money for mobile phones. 88.6% of Mothers are home makers. So above 75% of families depend one income only.

 

II. Economic characteristics of the Respondents

S. No	Name of the characters	Frequency
1.	Amount spent  a)        <5000 b)        5000-10000 c)        10000-15000 d)        >15000	128 116 37 19
2.	Amount received from a) Parents b) Friends c) Spouse d) Savings	265 5 11 19
3.	Purpose of cell a) Education b) Parents information c) for friends	144 121 35
4.	Changing of mobile phone a) No change b) 1 Time c) 2 Time d) 3 Time Total	231 36 22 11 300

 

From the results, two third of students have sound knowledge of using operating systems like windows, and updated soft ware’s.  When the students were asked about spent money for purchasing of mobile phones, 42.7% of students spent 5000R.s, 38.7% of Respondents spent 5000-10000R.s, 12.3% of students purchasing mobile phones cost of R.s, 10000-15000 and 6.3% of students have above 15000R.s, mobile phones.  When compare to occupation and income of father 73% of Respondents Fathers are daily coolies and earned monthly income below of 10000 (49.3%).

 

The student’s usage of money to purchase a mobile phone or recharge is high.  They spend more money for mobile phones for data use, phone covers, back covers, downloading App etc., They received money from their parents. from the research 88.3% of students buy mobile phones through their parents. 1.7% of students got mobile phones from gift of their friends. 3.7% of students have mobile from their husband. 6.3% of students buy mobile phones from their savings.

 

From the observations there are 144 students (48%) says, they purchase mobile phone for their education purpose. Other 121 students (40.3%) buy cell phones for give information to their parents. Remaining 11.7% of students say, they purchasing for chat with their friends. 58.3% of respondents using mobiles for making calls. 41.7% of students use mobiles mostly for sending SMS.

 

Some students feel they cannot live without a mobile phone. They brokened and missed, they immediately buy a new phone. Otherwise, some people change their mobiles at the time of new features introduced. 7.3% of people changed their mobiles 2-3 times.

 

III Mobile phone features

S. No	Name of the characters	Frequency
1.	Network type a) 3G b) 4G	121 179
2.	Data usage a) 1GB b) 2GB c) 3GB d) >1GB	148 46 10 96
3.	Type of call a) Normal calls b) What’s app calls c) Imo calls d) Messengers	238 28 7 7
4.	Favorite apps a) What’s app b) Share chat c) Hello, Tiktok d) Facebook, Instragram e) All Total	200 36 33 5 26 300

 

 

Almost all the students had internet connection on their mobiles. 40.3% of students using 3G type of data, and remaining 59.7% of students using 4G data. So, the students had awareness about data updating. There are 148 students (49.3%) using 1GB data daily. Whereas 15.3% were having data usage of 2GB, 3.3% of the students use data up to 3GB and below 1GB data users are 32%. Nearly 68% of the respondents use mobile phone for listening to music, playing games, social networking, and etc.

 

86% of students using normal calls, 9.3% using whatsapp calls, 2.3% of Messenger were used by the students.64% of the students check the features like, camera type, soft ware’s don’t care about features. They concentrate mostly price only. From the study, the teenage girls easily accept and adopted the new technologies. 66.7% of respondents commonly used on mobile phone was “what Sapp”. It is an application used to send photos, videos, audios, calls, images, and pdf files. Most of the people like and using whats App. This App able to form a group chat and share messages easily. This App requires internet data only.

 

IV Keeps the mobile phone into college

S. No	Name of the characters	Frequency
1.	College rules a) Right b) wrong	244 56
2.	Taking into college a) Yes b) No	212 88
3.	Cell mode a) Switch off b) Silent mode c) Vibration d) Airplane mode	109 80 11 13
4.	Other works a) Watching TV b) Education c) sports d) Nothing Total	152 77 46 25 300

 

Most of the colleges and universities band the usage of cell phones. But 70.7% of students take mobile phone to college with them. 81.3% of students strongly agreed the college rules. But, they are taking the cell with them. 36.3% of students switch off their phones at class hours.26.7% in silent mode, 3.7% in vibration 4.3% in Airplane mode.

 

The unused timings of mobile, the time are used for reading, sleeping and watching TV. From this study, students frequently checked their phone for messages or calls.

 

 

 

V Problems of mobile phone

S. No	Name of the characters	Frequency
1.	Time spent with mobile a) 1-2 hours b) 2-3 hours c) 3-4 hours d) Full day	204 48 30 18
2.	Switch off timings a) 7pm b) 8pm c) 9pm e) No Switch off	17 12 31 240
3.	Problem of usage a) Eye/ear b) Mental distortion c) No command Total	121 141 38 300

 

The main objective of this study is related to mobile phone spending time for students. From this point of view the, 68% of the respondents said that they spend one to 3 hours on mobile 10% of respondent spend full day on mobile. From this study we came to know, nearly two third of the students use mobile phones regularly at night timings. They spend continuously two hours or more. This is main reason for decline of academic performance. Late night mobile usage creates Late wake up, Late coming to college, concentration missing and their problems.80% of the students not desire to switch off their mobiles. 10.3% of the respondents switch off their mobiles at 9 pm.

 

In our study, most of the students spent their time with mobile phones for sharing messages and charts. The number of social Medias, Apps, and Games are increasing the spending time with mobiles. Apart from that, Google maps, alarm, remainder, safety Apps are increasing the values of mobiles. Large number of contact Data’s, pdf files, photos, schedulers, recorded Medias are the main causing factors of mobile addiction. So, the respondents thinks, like when had smart phone, the “globe is on the hand”.

 

I Relationship between mobile phone usage and Academic performance of students.

Correlations
		Reason. Use	Academic
reason. use	Pearson Correlation	1	-.039
	Sig. (2-tailed)		.496
	N	300	300
Academic	Pearson Correlation	-.039	1
	Sig. (2-tailed)	.496
	N	300	300

 

Pearson’s correlation co efficient was used to determine the relationship between mobile phone usage and students performance on Academic activities. It was used to identify the academic performance of a student.

Correlation determinant values vary from -1 to +1.pearson correlation value is -.039. No significant Relationship between mobile phone usage and academic performance.

 

204 Respondents spent 1-2 hours with mobile. 48 students using phone for 2- 3hours. 30 students spent 3-4 hours with mobile. Remaining 18 students use mobile full day. They are monitored by their family members regularly. It was another one reason for minimum usage of mobiles. They spent their timings in house for cooking, cleaning and help their mothers.

 

II Relationship between usage of Favorite App and academic performance of students.

 

Correlations
		fav.app	Academic
fav.app	Pearson Correlation	1	.068
	Sig. (2-tailed)		.241
	N	300	300
Academic Performance	Pearson Correlation	.068	1
	Sig. (2-tailed)	.241
	N	300	300

 

Correlation varies between -1 and +1. The positive larger value stronger the correlation. The correlation value is. 068.There is No stronger relationship between usage of favorite app and academic performance.

 

Factor analysis:

Kaiser – Meyer – Olkin Test value .705. Socio economic status determines the model cost and recharges packs of mobile phone.

 

Factor I Socio Economic Characters

Variable Number	Name of the Variable	Factor Loading
V1	Age of students	.963
V7	Occupation of father	.326
V8	Income of father	.360
Eigen value 1.188	% of variance 3.981

 

The respondents’ fathers’ educational status mostly is school education. The father’s occupation is Daily wages (73%), private (4.6%), government (6.3%) and self employment (16%). Their monthly income reveals that < 10000 (49.3%), 10000 to 15000 (28.7%) and >15000(22%). From the result the economic status of students are moderate.

 

Factor II Mobile phone features and usage

Variable Number	Name of the Variable	Factor Loading
	Favorite App	.901
V25	Recharge Amount	.679
V41	Camera type	.535
V19	Cost of cell	.649
V26	Time spent	.442
V18	Net type	.298
V43	WhatsApp Status	-.282
Eigen value 3.269	% of variance 10.958

 

The respondents check the cost of mobile phones first. They desire to purchase android phones. They checking the latest features like camera type, memory, Sim type and etc.,

 

Factor III Mobile phone usage

Variable Number	Name of the Variable	Factor Loading
V32	Time of off	.549
V34	Share cell with parents	.874
V44	Status type	-.130
V50	Wrong calls	.055
Eigen value 2.034	% of variance 6.816

 

Nearly 80% of students don’t like to switch off their mobiles. They use silent or flight modes in class hours. The respondents share mobile phones with their parents (.874).

 

CONCLUSION:

From the observations 244 respondents accept the college rules and they are clear knowledge about the usage of mobile phones. About 58.3% of students using phones for making and receiving calls. They are coming from interior villages and they are attending computer, shorthand, type writing classes after the college hours. So, they are return to home around 8 o‘clock.

So, they inform to their parents for returning timings.

 

Another one App “ Whats App” used common to all. At present, whatsapp is one of the most popular app and it is helps to make voice and video calls and it also helps to send and receive messages, photos, videos, pdf files etc., From the observations most of the students are members of two or more whats app groups. Some students are admini of such groups.

 

From this study the girls had good knowledge about the operating of mobile phones and new Apps, Applications, features, conversion of pdf etc.,

 

63.3% of PG and research students use mobile phones for their academic and research purpose.

 

SUGGESTIONS:

·         Parents do not allow their children’s to spend more time with mobile phones. Monitoring them.

·         Individual awareness is need for using mobile phones.

·         To create awareness about the impact of mobile phones.

·         Use the mobile phones in a right way.

 

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Received on 27.08.2019         Modified on 19.09.2019

Accepted on 10.10.2019         © A&V Publication all right reserved