Self-Esteem, Academic performance, and Mobile Phone Addiction among College Students

This study was aimed at analysing the relationship between self-esteem, academic performance, and mobile phone addiction among college students in the age group of 18 years to 21 years. The study also wanted to examine whether self-esteem can predict mobile phone addiction and can mobile phone addiction predict academic performance. The sample of 441 college students using smart phone was collected from various colleges in the city of Pune using incidental sampling method. The Pearson correlation, t-test, and regression analysis was used for analysing the data on SPSS 20. The study revealed that self-esteem and academic performance both were found negatively associated with mobile phone addiction. Self-esteem could predict the mobile phone addiction, and mobile phone addiction could predict the academic performance.