Smartphone use and addiction among secondary school students in Kuantan, Malaysia
Background: Smartphone addiction has become a social problem in Malaysia as smartphone users increase drastically. Previous study revealed that smartphone addiction has a negative effect on the physical and psychosocial of a human being. Aims: This study aims to examine smartphone use and addiction...
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| author | Siew, Pien Lee Zamimi, Hanis Athirah Syed Elias, Sharifah Munirah Atan, Ashikin Makhdzir, Norafisyah |
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| description | Background: Smartphone addiction has become a social problem in Malaysia as smartphone users increase drastically. Previous study revealed that smartphone addiction has a negative effect on the physical and psychosocial of a human being. Aims: This study aims to examine smartphone use and addiction among secondary school students. Methods: A cross-sectional study was employed involving 203 secondary school children at a secondary school in Malaysia. A set of a questionnaire consisting of two parts was used; (1) Part A: Sociodemographic, (2) Part B: Smartphone Addiction Scale in Malay version (SAS-M). Results: Finding from this study showed that there was a long duration of smartphones use was detected during the weekend with more than three hours per day and social media (81.8%) was the frequently visited function in the smartphones. These group of students were not addicted to smartphones, however, more than half of the students (57.6%) have a high risk of smartphones addiction. There is also a significant negative weak correlation between smartphone use and smartphone addiction during weekday and weekend with (p < 0.05; r2 -0.354, -0.360), respectively. Conclusion: This study provides insight into the use of smartphone and smartphone addiction in secondary school students from a Malaysian perspective. |
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| spelling | upm-950782023-04-12T02:25:35Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/95078/ Smartphone use and addiction among secondary school students in Kuantan, Malaysia Siew, Pien Lee Zamimi, Hanis Athirah Syed Elias, Sharifah Munirah Atan, Ashikin Makhdzir, Norafisyah Background: Smartphone addiction has become a social problem in Malaysia as smartphone users increase drastically. Previous study revealed that smartphone addiction has a negative effect on the physical and psychosocial of a human being. Aims: This study aims to examine smartphone use and addiction among secondary school students. Methods: A cross-sectional study was employed involving 203 secondary school children at a secondary school in Malaysia. A set of a questionnaire consisting of two parts was used; (1) Part A: Sociodemographic, (2) Part B: Smartphone Addiction Scale in Malay version (SAS-M). Results: Finding from this study showed that there was a long duration of smartphones use was detected during the weekend with more than three hours per day and social media (81.8%) was the frequently visited function in the smartphones. These group of students were not addicted to smartphones, however, more than half of the students (57.6%) have a high risk of smartphones addiction. There is also a significant negative weak correlation between smartphone use and smartphone addiction during weekday and weekend with (p < 0.05; r2 -0.354, -0.360), respectively. Conclusion: This study provides insight into the use of smartphone and smartphone addiction in secondary school students from a Malaysian perspective. I I U M Press 2021 Article PeerReviewed Siew, Pien Lee and Zamimi, Hanis Athirah and Syed Elias, Sharifah Munirah and Atan, Ashikin and Makhdzir, Norafisyah (2021) Smartphone use and addiction among secondary school students in Kuantan, Malaysia. International Journal of Care Scholars, 4 (1). 36 - 41. ISSN 2810-2327; ESSN: 2710-7175 https://journals.iium.edu.my/ijcs/index.php/ijcs/article/view/166 10.31436/ijcs.v4i1.166 |
| spellingShingle | Siew, Pien Lee Zamimi, Hanis Athirah Syed Elias, Sharifah Munirah Atan, Ashikin Makhdzir, Norafisyah Smartphone use and addiction among secondary school students in Kuantan, Malaysia |
| title | Smartphone use and addiction among secondary school students in Kuantan, Malaysia |
| title_full | Smartphone use and addiction among secondary school students in Kuantan, Malaysia |
| title_fullStr | Smartphone use and addiction among secondary school students in Kuantan, Malaysia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Smartphone use and addiction among secondary school students in Kuantan, Malaysia |
| title_short | Smartphone use and addiction among secondary school students in Kuantan, Malaysia |
| title_sort | smartphone use and addiction among secondary school students in kuantan, malaysia |
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