The Relationship between Social Skills and Perceived Smartphone Usage

By : Rageshwari Munderia, Rajbala Singh

Page No: 201-210

Abstract
Social skills play an instrumental role in individuals’ life. It helps individuals to communicate and maintain social relationships. Presently, smartphone has completely changed the mode of social communication, and social skills may play a crucial role in this regard. Thus, the aim of the present study is to investigate the relationship between social skills and perceived smartphone usage (both positive and negative usage). The perceived negative usage of smartphone has been assessed in terms of smartphone addiction. Sample of the present study comprised of (n=509) adult participants. Pearson’s product moment correlation (r) and multiple regression was employed to assess the relationship between proposed variables. Findings of the study demonstrated that social skills were significantly related with both perceived positive usage of smartphone and smartphone addiction. Social expressivity and emotional control emerged as significant predictors for both positive usage of smartphone and smartphone addiction. The findings of the study may have important implications for bringing awareness among the individuals regarding the role of social skills for effective usage of smartphone as well as for future researches in this direction.

Authors :
Rageshwari Munderia : Research Scholar – Dept. of Humanities and Social Sciences, The LNM Institute of Information Technology, Jaipur-302 031
Rajbala Singh : Associate Professor – Dept. of Humanities and Social Sciences, The LNM Institute of Information Technology, Jaipur-302 031,

DOI: https://doi.org/10.32381/JPR.2019.14.01.22