Smartphone Addiction in Relation to Academic Performance of Students in Thailand
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Abstract
Smartphone Addiction or Smartphone Dependency is ubiquitous and can be described as a constant need to use a phone in spite of outcomes that can impact one’s health and well-being. Several studies conducted in the global arena on Smartphone addiction indicate positive and negative outcomes but few studies on Smartphone addiction and academic performance have been researched in the Thai cultural context.
The present quantitative research attempted to make comparisons between Thai and international students in relation to Smartphone addiction and academic achievement. The simple random sampling technique was used to collect data from 202 Thai and 195 International students from two different educational institutions in Bangkok, Thailand. To measure Smartphone addiction, the Japanese version of the Smartphone dependency scale (J-SDS) constructed by Ezoe, Iida, Inoue, & Toda (2016), was used consisting of 29 items with the Cronbach Alpha of, α = 0.920 for the total scale, To measure academic achievement students Grade Point Average was calculated using a range from 2.00-3.00 and 3.01-4.0.
All three formulated hypotheses were not supported by the data since the independent sample t-test shows negligible differences that are not statistically significant at the 0.05 level. This study will paint a clearer picture of how, if any addiction to Smartphones affects the aggregated academic achievement of a student at a university.
Keywords: Smartphone Addiction, Academic Performance, Thai and International Students
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