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Sanim Amatya
Kathmandu
3rd December,2013
DECLARATION
This Summer Project proposal entitled Mobile phone and teenagers:impact consequences and
concerns (parents and guardians perspective) which is submitted by me in partial fulfillment of the
requirement for the award of BBA degree of Pokhara University comprises only my original work and
due acknowledgement have been made to materials used in the report.
Signature:
It is certified that this project titled Mobile Phone And Teenagers: Impact Consequences And
Concerns (Parents And Guardians Perspective) is the original work of Sanim Amatya who
carried out the summer project proposal work under my supervision.
Name:
External Evaluator
Contents
CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................... 10
1.1 General Background of the Study ............................................................................................... 10
1.2 Statement Of Problem ................................................................................................................. 10
1.3 Objectives ................................................................................................................................... 10
1.4 Significance Of Study ................................................................................................................. 11
1.5 Research Questions ..................................................................................................................... 11
1.6 Limitation of the study ................................................................................................................ 11
1.7 Organizational Structure Of The Study....................................................................................... 12
CHAPTER 2: REVIEW OF LITERATURE .............................................................................................. 13
2.1 Literature Review........................................................................................................................ 13
2.2 Theoretical Framework ............................................................................................................... 13
2.3 Conceptual Framework ............................................................................................................... 14
2.4 Specification Of Variables .......................................................................................................... 15
CHAPTER 3: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY ........................................................................................ 16
3.1 Research Design and Plan ........................................................................................................... 16
3.2 Population And Sample Size....................................................................................................... 16
3.3 Data Collection Procedure .......................................................................................................... 16
3.4 Data Processing Technique ......................................................................................................... 16
3.5 Data analysis tools ...................................................................................................................... 17
3.6 Data Analysis Plan ...................................................................................................................... 17
3.7 Expected Outcome Of The Study ............................................................................................... 17
CHAPTER 4: DATA ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION ................................................................. 18
4.1 Data tabulation and representation .............................................................................................. 18
4.1.1 Gender of Parents/Guardians .............................................................................................. 18
4.1.2 Age group of parents/Guardians ......................................................................................... 19
4.1.3 Gender of teenagers ............................................................................................................ 19
4.1.4 Age group of teenagers ....................................................................................................... 20
4.1.5 Possession of mobile phone by teenagers ........................................................................... 21
4.1.6 Purpose of providing mobile phone .................................................................................... 22
4.1.7 Addiction level of mobile phones ....................................................................................... 22
4.1.8 Happiness of Parents/ Guardians ........................................................................................ 24
4.1.9 Interruption of personal time............................................................................................... 24
4.1.10 Safety of mobile phone use ................................................................................................. 25
4.1.11 Impacts of mobile phone ..................................................................................................... 25
4.1.12 Bullying over mobile phones .............................................................................................. 26
4.1.13 Losing proper language ....................................................................................................... 27
4.1.14 Is using mobile phone while driving risky? ........................................................................ 27
4.2 Major findings and interpretation ............................................................................................... 28
4.2.1 Gender of teenagers and addiction level ............................................................................. 28
4.2.2 Gender of parents/guardians and impact of mobile phones ................................................ 28
CHAPTER 5: SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION .................................................................................... 29
5.1 Summary ..................................................................................................................................... 29
5.2 Conclusion .................................................................................................................................. 29
5.3 Recommendation ........................................................................................................................ 29
BIBLIOGRAPHY ....................................................................................................................................... 30
Bibliography
Annex 1 Questionnaire
LIST OF TABLES
I would like to express my appreciation to my supervisor Mr.AndrewDahal. I want to thank him for his
guidance, advice, time and trusting my skills throughout this research. I owe a great many thanks to a
great many people who helped and supported me during this research.
It is an honor to thank respondents of baneshwor area for providing information and helping in my
research topic.
I would also like to thank Ace Institute of management and its faculty members who provided the
opportunity to conduct a research on a topic which were not much thought about.
Most of the teenagers nowadays are carrying mobile phones and most of them are found to be addicted
towards their mobile phones. Most of the teenagers are losing their proper communication skill due to text
language and not everyone shares to their parents if they are bullied via mobile phones. Most of the
parents/guardians have neutral feeling regarding their teenagers using mobile phones and they are
satisfied with the safety aspect too.
From the research conducted it can be concluded that the addiction level for mobile phones has been
increasing day by day to the teenagers and they are losing their proper language skills due to text
language. Mobile phones are provided to maximum teenagers by their parents nowadays especially for
social bonding with friends and family and educational help purposes. However some parents believe that
it has negative impacts on teenagers whereas maximum of them believe that positive impacts are more.
CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION
1.3 Objectives
This study is centered on parents/guardians (PG) of New Baneshwor area perceptions of their
teenagers mobile phone usage:
To gain an overall understanding of teenagers mobile phone usage (positive purposes and
negative impacts)
To know if mobile phones have more positive impacts or negative impacts.
To understand the influence of texting on teenagers (such as text language on proper language,
text messaging on communication skills)
To understand the effects on teenagers physical (such as driving, health) and psychological (such
as bullying, un-monitored time usage, family time) safety issues.
Parents/ Guardians
Teenagers
Mobile phone
Impacts
Uses
Parents/Guardians: Parents are those male and/or female person/s that give birth to the child
and take care of them and take care of their needs and provide them love and care. Guardians are
those other than parents who take care of the child.
Teenagers: Teenagers are the group of people aged from 10 to 19 years old.
Mobile phones: Mobile phones are the small wireless device that has at least the same function
as a standard wired telephone but is smaller and more flexible.
Uses: Uses refers to the purposes for which the mobile phones are provided to the teenagers.
Impacts: Impacts refers to the effects or results of mobile phones use in teenagers life.
Positive impacts: Positive impacts are the fruitful effects in teenagers life due to mobile
phones.
Negative impacts: Negative impacts are the minus points in teenagers life due to use of
mobile phones.
CHAPTER 3: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
From this research I expect that: Teenagers are addicted to mobile phones.
Negative impacts are higher than positive ones.
Parents are not satisfied with their teenagers mobile phone use pattern.
CHAPTER 4: DATA ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION
4.1 Data tabulation and representation
4.1.1 Gender of Parents/Guardians
Table 1
Gender of Parents/Guardians
Female Male
Count Count
14 16
Among the 30 respondents surveyed 16 of them were male and the remaining 14 were
female.
4.1.2 Age group of parents/Guardians
Table 1
Row
Among the 30 respondents surveyed, most of them belonged to the age group 41 to 50 years and
very few of them belonged to the age group above 60.
Table 1
Gender of teenagers
Female Male
Count Count
Neutral 2 5
Not addictive 3 1
From the above table we can see that mostly the male teenagers are addicted to mobile phones in
comparison to female teenagers and female teenagers carried more mobiles in comparison to male.
Table 2
Gender of Parents/Guardians
Female Male
Count Count
Positive 11 7
It was found that most of the female parents believed that mobile phones have positive impact on
teenagers whereas most of the male parents felt that mobile phones have negative impacts on teenagers.
CHAPTER 5: SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION
5.1 Summary
Most of the teenagers nowadays are carrying mobile phones and most of them are found to be addicted
towards their mobile phones. Most of the teenagers are losing their proper communication skill due to text
language and not everyone shares to their parents if they are bullied via mobile phones. Most of the
parents/guardians have neutral feeling regarding their teenagers using mobile phones and they are
satisfied with the safety aspect too.
5.2 Conclusion
From the research conducted it can be concluded that the addiction level for mobile phones has been
increasing day by day to the teenagers and they are losing their proper language skills due to text
language. Mobile phones are provided to maximum teenagers by their parents nowadays especially for
social bonding with friends and family and educational help purposes. However some parents believe that
it has negative impacts on teenagers whereas maximum of them believe that positive impacts are more.
5.3 Recommendation
It is recommended that parents should pay more attention towards the mobile phone usage pattern of their
teenagers and their should be set age limit for using mobile phones. Use of mobile phones while driving
should be banned.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/cell-phone.html
http://www.scribd.com/doc/39925/Everything-you-wanted-to-know-about-the-mobile-web-but-were-
afraid-to-askblueflavorcom#download
http://cell-phone-parental-control-software-review.toptenreviews.com/are-teenagers-becoming-too-
attached-to-their-cell-phones.html