An Investigation On The Impact Of Smart Phone Addiction, Locality And Gender On Academic Performance Of Secondary School Students

Abstract

The current investigation was done to inspect the academic performance of sec. school pupils with respect to their smartphone addiction, locality and gender. Academic performance has been taken as dependent variable while Smartphone addiction, Locality & Gender have taken as independent variables. “Descriptive survey method” was undertaken for the investigation. “Multi-stage random sampling technique” was used to choose the sample of 800 sec. school students from Rohtak and Hisar Districts. The researcher relied on the examination records of the respective school to assess academic performance, specifically utilizing the previous test scores from the 8th grade. “Smart Phone Addiction Scale by Vijayshri & Ansari (2021)” was applied to collect the data. “3-way ANOVA with 2×2×2 factorial design” was used to examine the collected data. The findings of the study indicated that the combined influence of smartphone addiction, locality & gender on the academic performance of secondary school students was significant.