Mobile phone usage and family relationship among selected students in Ondo State, Nigeria

This study investigates the extent to which use of smart phone influences interpersonal relationship between parents and their adolescent children. Using students of Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko, Ondo State, as respondents. Sample for the study was selected through convenience sampling method. The sample size for the study was one hundred and eighteen (118). Questionnaire was the main source of data collection. The findings revealed that the respondents placed more value on their social interaction with their parents and would not permit the use of smart phone to substitute the need for social connection with their parents and family members. The assumption that young people tend to be obsessed with their smart phones to a degree that such would become a substitute to face-to-face human interaction is thus dismissed.