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570 GBD1006 NguyenKhanhPhong Asignment 1
570 GBD1006 NguyenKhanhPhong Asignment 1
13 SEPTEMBER 2022
Danang, Vietnam.
ASSIGNMENT 1 FRONT SHEET
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2. LITERATURE REVIEW
2.1. Smartphone consumption behavior.
a. Definition of smartphone
A smartphone is a mobile phone that created the greatest tech revolution since the Internet and
allows you to make a call, send text messages, and much more. It comes with highly advanced
features and is capable of playing audio, and videos, displaying pictures, surfing the Internet, and
sending e-mail. Although as compared to desktops, smartphones do not include big screen sizes,
they can do everything like a computer.
They include a touch screen to allow users to interact with them and can run on any of these mobile
operating systems like Windows Mobile, iOS, Android, Symbian, and BlackBerry OS. It allows you
to run different-different kinds of applications, such as business-use programs, games, and personal-
use applications (What is a Smartphone?, n.d.)
b. Smartphone consumption behavior (survey)
There are many definitions and concepts of smartphone consumer behavior. Consumer behavior is
the study of how individuals or groups buy, use and dispose of goods, services, ideas, or experiences
to satisfy their needs or wants (Kotler, P., Armstrong, G., Harris, L. C., & Piercy, N., 2017).
Consumer behavior used to be viewed as buyer behavior that reflected interactions between
consumers and producers at the point of purchase, but today's marketers understand that consumer
behavior is a continuous process rather than just what occurs when a consumer spends money and
receives goods or services. People use smartphones more for navigation, social media, emails,
online shopping, and a variety of other purposes than for making phone calls.
2.2. Factors that affect smartphone consumption behavior.
There are five factors that affect smartphone consumption behavior in young Danang people. They are
Habitual of Smartphone using Behavior, Individual Usage, Social Usage, Level of Dependence and
Emotional Values, symbolysed as HSB, IU, SU, LOD and EV respectively. The respondents attended in
the survey are advised to take the survey forms with the questions of these factors in order to have
clarified data.
2.2.6: Demographic
Demographics are questionnaires that ask about age, gender, education, and employment status. In order
to analyze material impartially, the researcher must collect demographic data about other people as well as
the total number of respondents. According to a review of previous demographic data, people in their
twenties are more likely to know about or want to use smartphones. Gender differences also have an
impact on smartphone usage habits. (TAMBUN, DALIMUNTHE, & NURHAYATI, 2020)
In this case, demographic information must be included in the survey in order to update data and conduct
an unbiased evaluation of Da Nang residents' use patterns. Finally, these tests are described in the
documentation.
3. METHODOLOGY
Measures of Central Tendency: mean, mode, and median.
Mean: The mean of a data set is the average of all the data values.
Calculation formula:
In which:
- : Sum of the values of the n observations
Calculation formula:
o Median: The median of a data set in the value in the middle when the data items are
arranged in ascending order
Calculation formula:
In which:
- : Mean of a sample
- : Observation of a sample
Standard deviation:
Calculation formula:
Ta
No Symbol Content References ble
1 HSB1 Checking my smartphone is becoming a habit (van Deursen , Bolle, 1:
2 HSB2 My smartphone is a part of my life Hegner, & Kommers, Ha
3 HSB3 When I need to complete a certain task then the 2015) bit
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4 HSB4 I use my smartphone automatically of
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5 HSB5 My smartphone is a part of my life
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phone using Behavior
Five factors of habitual smartphone use behavior are listed in Table No. 1. They are categorized using the
symbols HSB1 through HSB5. The references in this table were taken from the articles by Alexander
J.A.M. van Deursen, Colin L. Bolle, Sabrina M. Hegner, and Piet A.M. Kommers, (van Deursen , Bolle,
Hegner, & Kommers, 2015).
Table 2: Individual Usage
There are 4 individual usage factors in Table No. 2. They are categorized using the symbols IU1 through
IU4. The references in this table were taken from Alexander J.A.M. van Deursen, Colin L. Bolle, Sabrina
M. Hegner, and Piet A.M. Kommers." (van Deursen , Bolle, Hegner, & Kommers, 2015).
Table No.3 consists of 5 factors of Social Usage. They are classified in the symbols from SU1 to SU5.
This table took the references from the article by Alexander J.A.M. van Deursen , Colin L. Bolle, Sabrina
M. Hegner, Piet A.M. Kommers (van Deursen , Bolle, Hegner, & Kommers, 2015).
Table No.4 consists of 4 factors of the Level of Dependence. They are classified in the symbols from
LOD1 to LOD4. The information from the table took the references from the articles by Val Hooper and
You Zhou to enhance the given information (Hooper & Zhou, 2007).
Table No.5 consists of 3 factors of Emotional Value. They are classified in the symbols from EV1 to EV3.
This table took the references from Kit Hong Wong, Hsin Hsin Chang, and Chih Heng Yeh in order to
provide the authorized information (Kim, Sumet, & Joon, 2019)
Table 6: Demographics
Demographics are the factor affecting consumer behavior in terms of smartphone consumption. The
target audience will be narrowed down, the gender of the audience will be recognized, and the buying
power of smartphone consumers will be determined. A total of 101 people attended the research, the
information table consists of three different factors: gender, age, and affordability. Rohith Reddipalli
(Reddipalli, 2020) and Alexander J.A.M. van Deursen, Colin L. Bolle, Sabrina M. Hegner, and Piet A.M.
Kommers (van Deursen , Bolle, Hegner, & Kommers, 2015) are two sources of journal articles that
provide demographic information.
4.2. Collecting Data
In this report, the researcher uses 2 data sources, including primary and secondary, to gather information
to support the study:
- Secondary: a few websites and journals where you can find information on survey design,
theoretical underpinnings, and cover design. The researcher uses academic sources from journal
articles and other research on the same topic in addition to strengthening the information in the
research.
- Primary: A survey that the researcher himself designed in order to collect data from respondents
and analyze the data... Google Forms is the platform to conduct the survey. The survey includes 20
different questions that are relevant to smartphone consumption behavior.
- The Google Forms links to the survey: https://forms.gle/zQNNVfKS6Vv3RdrJ9
5. RESULT
5.1. Research Sample
The research survey collected a total of 101 respondents. The table below shows the demographic details,
With all 101 people attending the survey using a smartphone shows that smartphones are very popular
among young people in Danang. In the survey, there are 5 ranges of ages: under 18 years old, from 18-21
years old, from 21-23 years old, from 23 to 25 years old, and over 25 years old. The range of age under 18
years old is the highest intention to use a smartphone with a dominating rate of 48 percent. The reason for
this high exposure to smartphones in teenagers is the accessibility to technology. The increase of younger
people having access to smartphones can change the behavior of using smartphones because a smartphone
is now considered as a Swiss Army knife with multi-function, which is tempting to young people.
The statistics from the question in a factor answered by 101 Danang young people are presented in Table
8. Overall, the result of all questions was highly rated.
First, the question “I enjoy using my phone” has the mean, median, and mode values of 3.13, 3.00, and
4.00 respectively, and the percentage of respondents who agree with this question is relatively high.
Second, the sentence “Smartphones make me want to use it continually” has values of 2.86, 3.00, and
2.00, most respondents are against this sentence and the percentage of agreement is low.
Finally, the sentence “Smartphones make me feel relaxed when I’m using them” has values of 2.99, 3.00,
and 3.00. The percentage of respondents who agree and are against with this sentence is neutral.
Figure 3: Histogram of the factor: I enjoy using smartphones.
The Histogram graph of the question “I enjoy using smartphones” shows that young people in Danang
relatively agree that they enjoy using smartphones. At the end of the survey, the mean of the observed
question was 3.13 indicating that most young people in Danang are keen on using their smartphones. The
fact is that 4 is the most chosen answer in this question, so the mode is 4.00, and the median is 3.00. Thus,
it can be spectated that most young people in Danang enjoy spending time using their smartphones, but
the other are not, which is significantly balanced due to the rise of smartphone addiction.
6. CONCLUSION
The current study examines the habitual and smartphone behavior and factors such as gender,
age, individual and social smartphone usage, level of dependence, and emotional values. The findings first
demonstrate that compulsive smartphone use is a significant factor in smartphone behavior. Unintentional
behavior brought on by smartphone habits is triggered by both internal and external cues. Individual and
social usage habits serve to reinforce this even more. Habitual-related smartphone use appears to be a
significant predictor of the emergence of ingrained smartphone behavior. The smartphone provides a
variety of enjoyable experiences that might serve as rewards and raise the possibility that process-oriented
use will turn into habitual use. Future research would need to explore mobile phone usage in terms of each
behavior type in greater depth. It could also explore the correlations between different ages, genders, and
various types of behavior.
7. BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Kim, H.-W., Sumet, G., & Joon, K. (2019). The effects of consumption values and relational benefits on smartphone
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Kotler, P., Armstrong, G., Harris, L. C., & Piercy, N. (2017). rinciples of Marketing European Edition. Harlow Pearson.
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Reddipalli, R. (2020). Howard Sheth Model of Consumer Behaviour on Buying a Smartphone. SSRN Electronic
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8. APPENDIX
Welcome!
My name is Nguyen Khanh Phong, I'm currently a student of Business Administration at the University
of Greenwich Vietnam in Da Nang. I created this survey as part of my project for the "Statistics for
Managers" class to study the usage behavior of young customers for smartphone products in Da Nang city.
Please answer according to your best advice. This survey will take approximately 5 minutes.
Your information will be kept confidential and used only for research purposes, please rate your score
from lowest to highest (1-5). Thank you!
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