Personality Traits and Mobile Phone Addiction among Adolescents: Acorrelational study

Abstract

Background: Mobile phones in this technological era have become an integral part of day to day lives. Mobile phones are social enablers and help individuals to stay connected in intimate ways. Aims: The present paper investigated relationship between Personality Traits and Mobile Phone addiction. Sample: Purposive Sampling was done. Methods: The sample comprised of 100 adolescents (Mean Age= 15.53 years, S.D. = 1.733). The tools used for data collection were Big Five Inventory (Goldberg, 1992) and Mobile Phone Addiction Scale (Dr. A. Velayudhan & Dr. S. Srividya, 2010). Statistical Analysis: Descriptive Statistics and correlational analysis were done. Result: Results pointed out significant positive relationship between Extraversion, Neuroticism and Mobile Phone Addiction. Conclusion: The present study was undertaken to explore the relationship between Big five personality traits and Mobile phone addiction and it can be concluded that there is positive relationship between Extraversion, Neuroticism and Mobile Phone Addiction