Get Connected Or Get Destroyed? Adolescents And Mobile Devices In Urban Settings In Tanzania

Muhanga, M.

dc.creator	Muhanga, M.
dc.date	2021-07-08T07:03:35Z
dc.date	2021-07-08T07:03:35Z
dc.date	2017-09-03
dc.date.accessioned	2022-10-25T08:53:00Z
dc.date.available	2022-10-25T08:53:00Z
dc.identifier	Muhanga, M. ( 2017). Get Connected Or Get Destroyed? Adolescents And Mobile Devices In Urban Settings In Tanzania International Journal of Advanced Research and Publications Vol. 1 (3), 62-68p.
dc.identifier	2456-9992
dc.identifier	https://www.suaire.sua.ac.tz/handle/123456789/3636
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/93229
dc.description	This is a paper generated from research project on assess the impact of the mobile phones among adolescents in secondary schools in Morogoro municipality in Tanzania.
dc.description	This study was conducted to assess the impact of the mobile phones among adolescents in secondary schools in Morogoro municipality in Tanzania . Specifically the study determined the influence of mobile phones on students‟ behaviors, and assessed the impact of mobile phones on students‟ academic performance. A cross sectional research design was used to obtain data from both primary and secondary sources of information through structured questionnaire from 90 respondents obtained through simple random sampling. The collected data were coded and analyzed by using Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) computer program. Findings revealed that, 93.3% of the interviewed respondents‟ access and use mobile phones, and 63.3% agreed that mobile phones usage among secondary school students cause behavioural changes. Also the study revealed that students use mobile phones to organize and maintain their social networks (8.9%), search materials on internet and organize discussion (54.4%), and informing their parents‟ on issues concerning their education (1.1%). A number of impacts on using mobile phones were revealed, including; facilitating engagement of students in sexual affairs (41.1%), decline in moral values (43.3%), decrease in academic performance (91.1%), causing health problems to students (50.0%), cause disturbance in studies (47.8%) and resulting to time wasting (88.9%). This study recommends various measures to be taken by secondary school teachers and parents to minimize the use of mobile phones among secondary school students hence ensuring that students are getting time to concentrate on their studies and improve academic performance.
dc.description	Sokoine University of Agriculture
dc.format	application/pdf
dc.language	en
dc.publisher	Sokoine University of Agriculture
dc.relation	International Journal of Advanced Research and Publications;3
dc.subject	Mobile phones
dc.subject	Secondary School Students
dc.subject	Globalization
dc.subject	Tanzania
dc.title	Get Connected Or Get Destroyed? Adolescents And Mobile Devices In Urban Settings In Tanzania
dc.type	Article