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Submission: 08/02/2017
Revision: 24/02/2017
Accept: 06/03/2017
ABSTRACT
The development of telecom technology has a profound impact on the academic lives of the students. Smartphone usage became popular to young generation because of its educational and entertaining options by using the numerous applications. Among the young people, students are increasingly using Smartphone. But excessive Smartphone usage usually makes the students addicted to it and that impacts on user's academic performance, daily activities, physical and mental health, withdrawal tendency, and social relationships. This study aims at identifying the factors that affect the level of Smartphone addiction to the students and its impact on their overall academic performance.
A structured questionnaire has been developed to gather data from the students. A total of 247 questionnaires were collected from the business students of a private university of Bangladesh. Using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM), data were analyzed. Results revealed five Smartphone addiction factors such as, positive anticipation, impatience, withdrawal, daily-life disturbance, and cyber friendship. Factors like increased impatience and daily-life disturbance were found significantly related to the academic performance of the business students of Bangladesh. This study suggests that the students should reduce the intense use of Smartphone for smoothly doing their daily-life activities.
Keywords: Smartphone Addiction, Structural Equation Modeling, Increased Impatience, Daily-life Disturbance, Cyber Friendship.
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1.INTRODUCTION
Smartphone has become one the important devices used to simplify human lives and their activities. The usage of smartphone has been increased in recent years in Bangladesh. The number of Smartphone users in Bangladesh has increased by 8.20 million in 2015 and the figure will be more than doubled by 2021 (BTRC, 2016). In each year, more than 6.00 million new users are added to existing smartphone users (ERICSSON MOBILITY REPORT, 2015).
Smartphone combines both computer and mobile phone features into one device having web browsers that can be connected through mobile internet, and Wi-Fi internet network. It is a source of education and entertainment through the usage of numerous applications. Smartphone has become more popular to all generations because of its social networking applications such as Twitter, Facebook that connects people under one umbrella.
Smartphone users habitually engage in browsing web, checking e-mail, pocking social networking sites, sending text messages with touch and giant screen facility....