Correlation Between Smartphone Addiction and Physical Activity Among College Students Across Ahmedabad City

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: Smartphone has become an important device in current day living. It affects our physical activity levels. Excessive usage of smartphone may give impact on day-to-day physical activity. The more time spent on using the smartphones the least time for doing any kind of physical activity. In current time young adults spent their most of the time in using phone which decreases their physical activities. AIM: The current study is aimed to evaluate correlation between smartphone addiction and physical activity among college students across Ahmedabad city. METHOD: An observational study was conducted on college students across Ahmedabad city. International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ) and Smartphone Addiction Scale – Short Version (SAS-SV) was filled by 106 individuals studying in college and submitted through google form. ethical clearance has been taken. RESULT: Data was analysed using SPSS software version 29. The normality of data was checked by the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test and Data was not normally distributed, spearman’s correlation test was applied to find out the correlation between smartphone addition and physical activity. A strong significant negative correlation found between smart phone addiction and physical activity. (r=-0.805) CONCLUSION: The present study showed that physical activity was significantly lower among smartphone addicts and therefore found a relationship between smartphone addiction and physical activity among students. A person who spends more time on the phone spends less time for physical activity. Key words: College students, physical activity level, IPAQ, smartphone addiction, smartphone addiction scale – short version.