Undergraduates’ Phone Dependency and Its Implications on Academic Proficiency in Nigeria

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Department of social sciences education, faculty of education, university of ilorin, kwara state, Nigeria

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This is a descriptive survey research. The population for this study consisted of all undergraduates of tertiary Institutions in FCT Abuja, Nigeria. The target population for this study were 300level undergraduates of the sampled institutions. The data collected were analyzed using descriptive statistics of the mean rating and percentages was used to answer the research questions while the hypothesis one, two and three postulated were tested using PPMC, independent t-test and Analysis of Variance (ANOVA). The findings revealed that mobile phone dependency leads to academic failure, academic frustration, expel from university and sudden death by using ear phone while sleeping on bed are the problems attaching academic proficiency. The findings also revealed that there is significant relationship between mobile phone dependency and Academic proficiency. (r(178) =1.26, p<0.05). The findings pointed out there is no significant difference between mobile phone dependency and its implications on academic proficiency among undergraduates in tertiary institutions in FCT, Abuja, Nigeria {2, 177} = 2.306, p>0.05). There is no significant difference on the ways by which tertiary Institutions’ students are so much depend on mobile phone based on gender (t{179} = 1.714, p>0.05). This study concluded that uncontrollable usage of mobile phones do affect academic proficiency of undergraduates in tertiary institutions across board. This study recommended that mentoring programs should be made to eradicate the use of mobile phone dependency during lectures. Open communication between parents, level of adviser and students can help to discourage undergraduates’ mobile phone dependency in the lecture room.

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Receive Date: 2025/3/25

Accept Date: 2025/7/1

Publish Date: 2025/7/23

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