Smartphone Addiction with Respect to Social Anxiety among Young Adults in Rural Areas of Chhattisgarh

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Dipti Dodani , Ujjwal Sharma , Gunjan Mishra

Keywords young adults, rural area, social anxiety, smartphone addiction.

In today’s world we cannot imagine life without technology mainly the smartphones. The children and teenagers are using smartphones without any limitations, young adults are spending almost double the time on smartphones over the past decade and that is affecting them physically and mentally. No doubt it has brought great convenience to people’s lives. It has also affected the quality of sleep, loss of appetite, and majorly it affected the face-to-face interaction among people. The scope of technology has spread so far, that it is now affecting the young adults of rural areas as well. Today, no one remains untouched. The parameters being correlated in this research paper are smartphone addiction and social anxiety. Excessive use of smartphone often leads to adverse effects like smartphone addiction. Social anxiety is also known as social phobia is an intense anxiety of being negatively judge. The main purpose of this study to find out the relationship between smartphone addiction and social anxiety among the young adults of rural areas. Data was collected from the sample of 100 young adults from rural areas of Chhattisgarh in which the ratio of males and females were equal. Variables were measured using smartphone addiction scale and Liebowitz social anxiety scale. Statistical product and service solution (SPSS) 16 was used to analyze descriptive statistics, persons correlations, independent sample t-test and so on. According to the Pearson correlations it shows that smartphone addiction had no significant correlation with social anxiety in the sample. Smartphone addiction has no predictive effect on level of social anxiety among the young adults of rural areas and males are addicted to smartphone as compared to females. Females have higher level of social anxiety than Males

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Dipti Dodani, Ujjwal Sharma, & Gunjan Mishra (June-2022). Smartphone Addiction with Respect to Social Anxiety among Young Adults in Rural Areas of Chhattisgarh. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NOVEL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, 7(6), 301-309. https://ijnrd.org/papers/IJNRD2206032.pdf

Volume 7 Issue 6, June-2022

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Research Area: Social Science and Humanities 

Country: raipur, chhattisgarh, India

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