Relationship Between Smartphone Compulsive Usage & Psychological Health Among Savitribai Phule Pune University Students

Abstract: With the rapid growth of smartphone usage in recent years, concerns have arisen regarding its impact on mental health, particularly among young adults. Smartphones have become integral to student’s daily lives, serving as tools for communication, learning, and entertainment. The purpose of the study was, to Study the Relationship between Compulsive Smartphone Usage & Psychological Health of the students of Savitribai Phule Pune University (SPPU). For which 80 students from SPPU were selected using Purposive sampling technique. Descriptive Correlational method was administered to find the correlation between Compulsive Smartphone Usage & Psychological Health among students of SPPU. For measuring Compulsive Smartphone Usage, Dr David Greenfield's smartphone compulsion test (2013) was used and to assess the Psychological Health DASS-21 (Depression Anxiety Stress Scale) developed by Lovibond, S.H.& Lovibond, P.F. (1995) was used. The collected data was statistically analyzed using SPSS software. The Mean and standard deviation of Compulsive Smartphone Usage was 8.25(±2.717) and the Mean and standard deviation of Psychological Health was 41.53(±21.092) respectively. The calculated coefficient of correlation value between smartphone compulsion and Psychological Health was 0.381 The results indicate that the calculated significant two-tailed value does show a significant relationship at the 0.05 level of significance (p = 0.000) Therefore, it can be concluded that there is significant relationship between Compulsive smartphone usage and Psychological Health among students of Savitribai Phule Pune University.