A Study on the Effects of Young Aged and Middle Aged Adults on the Usages of Smart Phone

Abstract

Aims: This paper aims at exploring the purpose and frequency to use their smartphones and to see their reactions about the importance of
using a smartphone.
Method: Survey technique was applied to collect the data. A sample of 100 young aged adults and 100 middle-aged adults from Delhi and
Delhi NCR region was selected to study the habit pattern of the mobile phone users.
Findings: The study revealed that there is a big difference in the usage of the smartphone by young aged adults and middle-aged adults.
Young aged adults use their smartphone mainly to browse over the internet, using online applications and to entertain themselves for more
than 5 hours of a day. On the other hand, middle-aged adults use their smartphone mainly to contact with the people and use watts app for
2–3 hours of the day. It was found that most of the positives sides like tech-friendly, socializing, getting information from the internet, etc. and
negatives like bad effect on the health, misuse of personal information through hacking by using a smartphone is affecting young aged adults
but middle-aged adults are less affected by smart phone’s positives and negatives also.
Keywords: Information and communication technology, Middle-aged adults, Young-aged adults.
Journal of Teacher Education and Research (2019). DOI: 10.36268/JTER/1414