Abstract

The present study mainly focused to study the level of Smart phone addiction among the Secondary School students of Sonitpur district. This study was mainly a descriptive survey conducted on sample of 84 secondary school students (40 male and 44 female) who were selected with the help of stratified random sampling technique. For this study the researchers adopted “Smart Phone Addiction Scale” developed by Dr. Vijayshri and Dr. Masaud Ansari. The finding of the study revealed that most of the students have high level of Smart phone addiction during the COVID-19 pandemic situation. Significant differences were observed between the students on the basis of the gender and locality. The male students were found highly smart phone addicted as compared to the female counterparts. Similarly it is examined that the students from urban area were preferably more prone to smart phone addiction in comparison with that of students from rural area.

Key words: COVID-19 pandemic, smart phone addiction, secondary school students