Our aim was to know the effect of mobile phone during lockdown among students. A total number of 108 students completed the questionnaire. The questions were asked related to mobile phone usage. Students of secondary, Higher secondary and higher education were the sample of the study. Online survey was conducted, finding of the study showed that all students in the study were using mobile phone, majority of students were using their mobile phone more than before the lockdown. During the pandemic they are spending more time on their mobile phone for different purposes like studies, entertainment, for gaming etc. Result of the study also revealed that students are facing problem like eye irritation, neck pain etc.
## I. INTRODUCTION
Appropriate to the ease of access of communication technology, Mobile phone become increasingly significant in everyday life. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the whole world understands the importance of Digital Media, Digital learning, and online teaching. Suddenly, the world as a whole comes under lockdown, and the education field rapidly transformed from face-to-face teaching to online teaching. Since the Digital learning speeding up persists, it moreover pitches brightness on Digital break in India. Still, students starting isolated districts and individuals belonging to poor societies, require communications, so this indicates to collect online learning advantages.
Telecom Regulatory Authority of India in their report on 31 January 2021 mentioned that in our country 118.34 crores people owned mobile phones and internet connection reached to 75.74 crores and the ratio of consumer of Delhi is highest in the country. (Source Amar Ujjala dated 18 March 2021). Mobile phone possession is virtually all over the place; Secondary, higher Secondary and higher level students and very much of the enlargement in youngster Mobile phone possession has been ambitious by approval with the youths. Every day, latest technologies are being created and nowadays inventions rapidly develop into previous time's reports. Although these technologies confine awareness, include utility and the facility of day by day our life.
As we all know mobile phone users all over the world increasing day by day but after the lockdown imposed in the country and world it became more essential than ever before. Mobile phone became the only tool through which we operates most of our activities like we bought things online we teach and learn by this tool only and many other things. Now it became a boon for mankind because outside there is nothing to do.
## II. REVIEW OF LITERATURE
Aoki and Downes (2004), studied social as well as developmental features on Mobile phone tradition with college students. They recognized numerous attitudinal issues supported on the investigative study counting, essential in modern times, price effectiveness as balanced in landline phone, protection with security and enslavement.
Matthews (2004), fulfilled Australian pubescent do not create in excess of per day 5 calls taking regular and SMS used $85\%$ of their less than 5 times a day. Studies prove femininity correlated variations with youthful users of Mobile phones.
Montgomery (2007), studied latest Digital atmosphere obtainable an excellent collection of potential for statement, interface and information repossession at the sensitive was never previous to presented.
Chen et al. (2007), projected essential of Mobile phones for college students to stay contact through their family. Mobile phones use to complete family responsibilities near allocation their understandings by receiving an emotional and supernatural prop up from their family.
Remya Lakshmann (09April, 2020), has studied how is Covid-19 impacting online education. The countrywide COVID-19 lockdown has compulsory schools and universities to close and more than $91\%$ of the globes student population has online teaching-learning classes at home. The closing has sited exceptional faces on administrations, institutions, professors, faculty, parents and concern contributors throughout the world. The progress to secluded teaching learning has been facilitated by some online method likely Google classroom, digital blackboard, Zoom and Microsoft Teams, YouTube etc every one of vital role in this renovation.
Ankita Sharma (09 May, 2020), has calculated digital health in the consequences of Covid-19. For the first time, government of India is permitting Indian Universities to recommend an online degree as formerly be restricted to foreign Universities. Nowadays, $20\%$ to $100\%$ courses motivate and expand the entrance to higher education by online platform.
Subjected to Literature review, subsequent two research questions were raised in this study:
RQ1: Are students using Mobile phones?
RQ2: How many hours they spent on their Mobile phone before the lockdown and during lockdown?
## III. METHODOLOGY
Online survey was conducted through Google form. To determine the level of engagement of Students towards their mobile phone during the pandemic. Researchers sent questionnaire to many students and got responses from the students produced suitable sample. Authors tested to confine a model that is a truthful demonstration of the persons pretentious by Mobile phone usage. A sample of students (Graduate,
Question 6: Your Qualification?
Post Graduate and Others) is preferred. Here 108 retorts from online inspection queries were deliberate to presume Mobile phone routine, purpose of use Mobile phones and time using before, during the Covid-19 lockdown period. Also, problem facing by students while using Mobile phone. Authors found number of comments of students regarding the Mobile phone usage.
Here online survey consists of 10 Questions and got 108 responses from students. Majority of students that is (100 percent) owned a Smartphone. We have discussed online survey questions as following:
Objective: To know the mobile phone usage by students during the lockdown period.
Table 1: Students Qualification.
<table><tr><td>Answer</td><td>Students Responds</td></tr><tr><td>Graduation</td><td>69 (63.89%)</td></tr><tr><td>Post Graduation</td><td>08 (7.41%)</td></tr><tr><td>Other</td><td>31 (28.70%)</td></tr><tr><td>Total</td><td>108</td></tr></table>

Graph 1: Students Qualification.
Table-1 and graph-1, showed the qualification of students, in which $64\%$ students were graduate, $7\%$ postgraduate and $29\%$ others students.
Question 7: For what purpose do you use Mobile phone the most?
Table 2: Purpose of use Mobile phone the most
<table><tr><td>Answer</td><td>Students Responds</td></tr><tr><td>Study</td><td>88 (81.48%)</td></tr><tr><td>Entertainment</td><td>10 (9.26%)</td></tr><tr><td>Other</td><td>10 (9.26%)</td></tr><tr><td>Total</td><td>108</td></tr></table>

Graph 2: Purpose of use Mobile phone the most
Table-2 and graph-2, revealed that most of Entertainment and $9\%$ using mobile phone for other students that is $82\%$ were using mobile phone for things.
studies, $9\%$ students using mobile phone for
Question 8: How many hours you spent on your Mobile phone before lockdown?
Table 3: Hours spent on Mobile phone before lockdown
<table><tr><td>Answer (Time)</td><td>Students Responds</td></tr><tr><td>1-3 hours</td><td>73 (67.59%)</td></tr><tr><td>3-5 hours</td><td>29 (26.85%)</td></tr><tr><td>More than 5 hours</td><td>06 (5.56%)</td></tr><tr><td>Total</td><td>108</td></tr></table>

Graph 3: Hours spent on Mobile phone before lockdown
According to the table-3 and graph-3, most of the students $68\%$ were using their mobile phones 1-3 hours before the lockdown, followed by $27\%$ in 3-5 hours and $5\%$ of the students were using their mobile phone in more than 5 hours.
Question 9: How many hours you are spending on your Mobile phone during the lockdown period?
Table 4: Hours spending on Mobile phone during the lockdown period.
<table><tr><td>Answer(Time)</td><td>Students Responds</td></tr><tr><td>1-3 hours</td><td>24 (22.22%)</td></tr><tr><td>3-5 hours</td><td>48 (44.44%)</td></tr><tr><td>More than 5 hours</td><td>36 (33.34%)</td></tr><tr><td>Total</td><td>108</td></tr></table>

Graph 4: Hours spending on Mobile phone during the lockdown period.
Table-4 and graph-4, showed that only $22\%$ students were using their mobile phones for 1-3 hours, $45\%$ in 3-5 hours and $33\%$ of the students were using their mobile phone in more than 5 hours. From the table and graph it can clearly observed that after imposed the lockdown in the country the mobile phone usage by students increased.
Question 10: What type of problems you are facing to use Mobile phone.
Table 5: Type of problems you are facing to use Mobile phone
<table><tr><td>Answer</td><td>Students Responds</td></tr><tr><td>Eye irritation</td><td>57 (52.78%)</td></tr><tr><td>Pain in shoulders</td><td>05 (4.63%)</td></tr><tr><td>Neck pain</td><td>08 (7.41%)</td></tr><tr><td>Other</td><td>38 (35.18%)</td></tr><tr><td>Total</td><td>108</td></tr></table>

Graph 5: Type of problems you are facing to use Mobile phone
According to the table-4 and graph (4.10.1), $53\%$ students showed Eye irritation due to the use of mobile phone, $5\%$ Pain in shoulders, $7\%$ Neck pain and $35\%$ other (Stressed, disconnected, alone etc.).
## IV. FINDINGS OF THE STUDY
1. All students were using Mobile phone.
2. The time of spending on Mobile phone increased during the lockdown.
3. Most of students are facing many problems like eye irritation and neck pain etc due to excessive use of Mobile phone.
4. Majority of students are using their mobile phone for studies because they are at Home. Mobile phone is very helpful for them to study in proper way.
## V. COMMENTS OF STUDENTS
What time invited some comment about the topic, students granted number of reactions. One student said, "Using mobile phone is good for our entertainment but as now a day we are spending more time on mobiles it's not good for our health". While another student simply claimed: "I cannot study by phone"; "I am facing no issue while using mobile phone"; "It is useful but has some side-effects also".
Again, some students gave the nice comments that "Full enjoy in lockdown my mobile was my strength during Covid-19"; "Only use mobile for study and Learning many things"; "During this pandemic mobile phones are very much useful to study"; "Colleges should be start soon because I am using phone excessively sometimes for studies sometimes for entertainment due to which I am having eye sight problems".
## VI. CONCLUSION
Online survey exposed that there are some negative possessions related to Mobile phone. As finding of the study showed that many students have eye irritation, many had neck pain and shoulder pain. Authors have also found that most of people are using their mobile phone for their studies and because of lockdown due to pandemic they are at home so their studies are totally online based so it is necessity of the time to use mobile phone but some students said that they use for entertainment and for time pass. On the basis of the answers of the students we can say that the tendency of using mobile phone is increased during this period because they can't go out so they all are depend on their mobile phone only.
To conclude we can say that, in the current situation mobile phone is very helpful as students can learn from their homes only and they can achieve their goals without stepping out, but extreme use of the Mobile phone can harm us. So we should use it in limit and in proper manner.
Generating HTML Viewer...
References
13 Cites in Article
A Taylor,R Harper (2001). Talking activity: young people and mobile phones Paper presented at CHI 2001 Workshop: Mobile Communications: Understanding Users, Adoption and Design.
Jennie Carroll,Steve Howard,Jane Peck,John Murphy (2002). From Adoption to Use: the process of appropriating a mobile phone.
Kumiko Aoki,Edward Downes (2004). An analysis of young people’s use of and attitudes toward cell phones.
R Matthews (2004). The Psychosocial aspects of mobile phone use among adolescents.
J James,J Drennan (2005). Exploring Addictive Consumption of Mobile Phone Technology.
Rich Ling (2005). Mobile Communications vis-à-vis Teen Emancipation, Peer Group Integration and Deviance.
Alan Mozes (2012). Report on healthcare use in the US.
Tessa Jones (2014). Student's cell phone addiction and their opinions.
M Krithika,S Dr,Vasantha (2013). Social Impact of Mobile Phone Usage Among Old Age People: A Qualitative Perspective.
Sairoop Dasaraju,Hamid Shahnasser (2011). Smart Solar-Powered Lighting System for Smart Cities.
Pramod Mathew (2020). India may escape a recession, but corona virus will show down growth further.
Remya Lakshmann (2020). How is Covid-19 impacting online education.
(2020). COVID-19 and Clinical Trials: An Aftermath.
No ethics committee approval was required for this article type.
Data Availability
Not applicable for this article.
How to Cite This Article
Kusum Sajwan Negi. 2026. \u201cEffect of Mobile Phone Usage on Students during the Pandemics Covid-19\u201d. Global Journal of Human-Social Science - G: Linguistics & Education GJHSS-G Volume 22 (GJHSS Volume 22 Issue G7).
Explore published articles in an immersive Augmented Reality environment. Our platform converts research papers into interactive 3D books, allowing readers to view and interact with content using AR and VR compatible devices.
Your published article is automatically converted into a realistic 3D book. Flip through pages and read research papers in a more engaging and interactive format.
Our website is actively being updated, and changes may occur frequently. Please clear your browser cache if needed. For feedback or error reporting, please email [email protected]
Thank you for connecting with us. We will respond to you shortly.