Impact of Mobile Addiction on Psychological Well-Being among University Students

The study was aimed at investigating the impact of mobile addiction, gender and nature of course on psychological well-being of the university students. A random sample of 120 university students (54 boys and 66 girls) both science and arts were participated in the study. A mobile addiction scale a modified version of internet addiction scale developed by Egger and Rauterberg (1996) was used to measure high and low level of mobile addiction and psychological well-being questionnaire developed by Indira Jaya Prakash was used to measure the level psychological wellbeing of the sample. The results indicates that higher levels of addiction to mobile lowers the levels of psychological well-being. Study also reveals gender differences in the experience of psychological well-being. Female students found to have better psychological well-being than male students. Further the results indicate that science students have better psychological well-being than their counterparts arts students. Implications of the study were included in the results and discussion.