Smartphone Addiction in Mexican Engineering Students

Smartphone Addiction in Mexican Engineering Students

Smartphone

adicction

Engineering students

gender

Mexico.

Students academic performance could be affected by excessive use of the smartphone. This study focuses on analyzing the level of cell phone addiction in engineering university students. It also seeks to determine if there is a difference by gender in this behavior. 306 engineering students from a Technological Institute in Veracruz, Mexico participated in the study. The instrument used to obtain data was SAS-SV (Smartphone addiction scale-short version) designed by [1]. In order to identify the set of indicators with the highest factor loadings, an exploratory factor analysis was carried out with extraction of components and orthogonal rotation with the Varimax method. To identify if there is a difference by gender, the t test is used to contrast the hypothesis about two independent population means. The findings demonstrated the extraction of two components, which differs from the one-dimensional model proposed by [1], and no difference was found between the groups of male and female students.

García-Santillán, Arturo

Moreno-García, Elena

Martínez-Rodríguez, Valerie

International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technologies (iJIM); Vol. 15 No. 22 (2021); pp. 127-141

1865-7923

International Association of Online Engineering (IAOE), Vienna, Austria

2021-11-19

Copyright (c) 2021 Arturo García-Santillán, Elena Moreno-García, Valerie Martínez-Rodríguez

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