Mobile Addiction and Mental Health of College Students

Now-a-days, it is commonly observed that with the advancement of mobile phones, there is an increase in number of cell phone users, especially young adults. They are using mobile phones very frequently for day to day activities. Keeping in view this thing, it is important to study the effects of mobile phone exposure on mental health of students.

The study was conducted on a sample of 100 college students of rural and urban areas of rewari district. Mobile addiction scale developed by Dr. A. Velayudhan and Dr. Srividya and Mental health scale by Pramod kumar were used for data collection. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics such as mean, S.D, correlation and t-test. The main finding indicates that there is very low positive correlation between mental health and mobile addiction.