Impacts of using Smartphones on youth "A study among the members of rotaract clubs in Pokhara"
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Abstract
The main goal of this research is to identify the impacts of using smartphones on
youth who are actively involved in Rotaract Club of Pokhara valley. It is believed that
this research will be one of the most important study materials to know the impacts of
smartphones on youths of society.
The population in this study area is the active members of Rotaract Club of Pokhara
valley. Rotaract club is the social organization who works for community,
leaderships, and professionalism developments. There were 11 Rotaract clubs in
Pokhara valley where five clubs were selected through lottery method, simple random
sampling method. Among them there were 120 active members in those five clubs
where I had used Krejcie & Morgan rules to find out standard sample size and 92
respondents were also selected from simple random sampling method. Only 75
respondents had responded on given deadline i.e. 60 days. The study was completed
through descriptive research design. The self-made structured questionnaire was sent
to the respondents from Google form and the data was analyzed through the Google
form summary. The frequency distribution charts like bar diagram, column diagram
and pie-chart are used to analyze the collected data.
Most of the youth from the Rotaract Clubs had quite different response towards using
smartphones. Most of the respondent’s i.e., 65.33 percentages are from age group 18
to 25 years. Most of the youth has taken the smartphones for first time at the age of 16
and most of the respondents find smartphones more comfortable means of
communication. The smartphone has made the world smaller as they totally depend
on it.
The youth use smartphone mainly for study purpose, to get connected to their friends
and relatives as well as for the entertainment purposes. Smartphones have declined
the family relationship as both parents and children are busy at social sites like
Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok and so on. The youths of today’s time feel more
comfortable in a hand device with their fingertips rather than being sociable with the
people around them.
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The major influencing factor of using smartphones are reliable, time saving, easy to
use, easy to communicate, helps in study, entertainment etc.. The majority of the
respondent rates smartphones very positive and they are thinking this will make
everyone life much easier in coming future than today.