Smartphones and Social Anxiety: An Investigation of Usage Patterns and Mental Health among Murray College Students
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.37934/jhqol.6.1.112Keywords:
Smartphone, addiction, social anxiety, technology, case studyAbstract
This study has been conducted to investigate the relationship between smartphone usage patterns and social anxiety among students. The relationship between mobile phone addiction and social anxiety is a complex interplay of technology and mental health. Excessive use of smartphone can amplify social anxiety, as individuals seek constant digital validation while inadvertently isolating themselves from real-world social interactions. This intense discussion emphasizes how technology use must be balanced in order to lessen its negative impacts on mental health. Murray Graduate College smartphone users are included in the sampled demographic. Convenience sampling and online surveys were used to gather information from 200 students at Government Graduate Murray College Sialkot. According to descriptive data, a sizable section of the student body uses their smartphones for seven hours or more every day. This suggests that the predictor variable “social anxiety” significantly contributes to explaining the variance in the dependent variable “Smartphones addiction”. The data revealed that smartphone addiction is positively associated with social anxiety, Chi- square test further confirmed a significant association between addiction status and the time spent using mobile phones. The relationship between mobile phone addiction and social anxiety were investigated. Other objectives of this study were to investigate either there is significant difference in the time spent using mobile phone of addicted and non-addicted students and is there any association between time spent using mobile phone and mobile phone addiction.
