Self-Esteem, Academic performance, and Mobile Phone Addictionamong College Students

Abstract

This study was aimed at analysing the relationship between self-esteem, academic
performance, and mobile phone addiction among college students in the age group of 18 years to 21
years. The study also wanted to examine whether self-esteem can predict mobile phone addiction and
can mobile phone addiction predict academic performance. The sample of 441 college students using
smart phone was collected from various colleges in the city of Pune using incidental sampling
method. The Pearson correlation, t-test, and regression analysis was used for analysing the data on
SPSS 20. The study revealed that self-esteem and academic performance both were found negatively
associated with mobile phone addiction. Self-esteem could predict the mobile phone addiction, and
mobile phone addiction could predict the academic performance.