Study of Cellular Phone Usage and its Outcomes

Mahnaz Farahmand¹ Mahdi Alinejad²

1) Assistant Professor of Sociology, Yazd University
2) M. A. in sociology, Yazd University

IOI Code : XYCK-AEEDG
Publication : International Conference on Management and Humanities(icmhconf.com)
Abstract :
    Abstract Today, the cellular phone in comparison with the computer and Internet technologies, because of the cheapness and its ease of use, greater influence have in public life, lifestyle and cultural norms of the people. The main aim of present research is study of the usage of cellular phone and its consequences among the students of Yazd. This study was conducted with survey technique and the target statistical society is all high school students in Yazd city that with using multi-stage cluster sampling method, 384 were selected as sample. The findings show that there is a significant relationship between cellular phone usage with educational failure, family belonging and crisis of identity. Results of bivariate regression analysis shows that the effect of cellular phone usage determines 25.2 of variation of the educational failure, 25/9% of variation of the the identity crisis,and 20.7% of variation of the family belonging percent. Keyword: cellular phone usage, educational failure, identity crisis, family belonging, students

Keywords : keyword cellular phone usage educational failure identity crisis family belonging students