• Dr. Mamta Sharma
• Amarpreet Singh

Indian adolescents are greatly affected by high smartphone engagement and are currently driving Smartphone's market in India. With the rapid rise of smartphone usage in recent years, smartphone devices have become a ubiquitous part of our culture and revolutionized how we live. The present study focused on to see gender differences in smartphone addiction and its effect on emotional awareness among adolescents. The sample composed of 300 students were screened, out of which 200 students selected randomly from Bathinda and Mansa. For this purpose, Smartphone addiction scale (Kwon et al.,2013) and Emotion Awareness Questionnaire (Rieffe C et al.,2007) were used to assess the levels of smartphone addiction and emotional awareness in adolescents respectively. It was hypothesized that 1) Girls would score high on smartphone addiction than boys; 2) The subjects having low level of smartphone addiction would have better emotional awareness as compared to their counterparts; 3) Girls would have better emotional awareness than boys. T-test revealed significant gender difference on smartphone addiction (t=2.434*). Girls (M=157.30, SD=11.06) scored higher on smartphone addiction as compared to boys (M=151.66, SD=12.07). Analysis of variance revealed that the result did not support the second hypothesis that the subjects having low level of smartphone addiction would have better emotional awareness as compared to their counterparts {F (1,196) = 3.635, p>0.05}, whereas the main effect of gender came out to be significant for emotional awareness (F=15.122** p<0.01).

Keywords: Smartphone Addiction, Emotional Awareness

"Gender Differences in Smartphone Addiction: Its Impact on Emotional Awareness", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no.293-301, April-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1904B43.pdf

"Gender Differences in Smartphone Addiction: Its Impact on Emotional Awareness", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no. pp293-301, April-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1904B43.pdf