A Study on Generation Z’s Perception of Challenges in Using iOS-Based Smartphones in Ahmedabad City

The overuse of the smartphone and on problematic behaviors associated with it has considered differences at the intergenerational level among the considered variables. For the measurement of smartphone distraction perception, smartphone problematic use, phubbing, and cognitive failures, a self-report questionnaire was employed. In this study, two hundred and twenty subjects participated. The participants divided by generation Z, Y and Z according to Restaino, classification (2022) is aged between 18 and 57 years. Data analysis was carried out through the application of Spearman's rho was used to analyse correlations between subscales. The Kruskal-Walli’s test was invectively used to analyse differences between participants. All of our findings have been positive in the direction because no significant positive correlation was found between perceptions of distraction from the smartphone, phubbing behaviour, problematic smartphone use, and cognitive failures. In this sense, an additional observation is that all variables under investigation have come to the forefront revealing an important difference between the generations. The generation comprising 18-26-year-old scored the highest in most subscales analysed for Generation Z.