Smartphone Usage, Family Life, and Anxiety: A Study

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Family
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The main purpose of this article is to understand the relation between the usage of
smartphones , family life and anxiety. This topic has been selected as there were many types of
research that have taken place earlier over this particular topic (Samaha & Hawi, 2016). A
research carried on with the Chinese students was of this opinion that improper usage of the
internet via smartphones may lead to a lack of love and affection from the family members. I
have also been seen that many of the studies are confirming about the marital disorders between
parents as the main cause behind using of this smartphones or internets. Like any other article,
this article also has used some of the procedures or methods for gathering the data.
The sampling procedure was used for getting the data for this particular article. The
random sampling method was used by selecting a random number of students. They were asked
to participate in this survey and were asked to fill up a survey questionnaire. I have seen that
about 381 students filled up those questions and have sent it after completing the whole process.
So, it is basically a response rate of 54.5 percent (Hawi & Samaha, 2017). So, it is evident from
here that the undergraduate students had, made use of the smartphones and the internet
connections for filling up these questionnaires.
The average of the age of the respondents was something between 17 to 2 years of age.
So, this is basically proving the fact that the usage of smartphones and the internet is quite high
among the people belong within this age group. However, the important information regarding
the age and the confidentiality of any kinds of information was maintained. There were several
instruments used for this research. Some of the instruments are the Smartphone addiction scale
short version. Apart from this, the black anxiety inventory was also used that helped in knowing
the kinds of problems or anxieties that are faced by the people when they keep on using the
smartphones, internet, and many other such social sites. It was seen that the cut off for a male is