TY - JOUR AU - Simbolon, Mangadar AU - Simbolon, Stephanie Bethania Pearly PY - 2019/08/13 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - The Study of Gadget Addiction of Among University Students JF - Abstract Proceedings International Scholars Conference JA - isc VL - 6 IS - 1 SE - DO - 10.35974/isc.v6i1.1160 UR - https://jurnal.unai.edu/index.php/isc/article/view/1160 SP - 240 AB - <p>Data in the country of Indonesia in 2017 shows the number of gadget users is 74.9 <br>million people, while those exposed or using social media is 129.2 million.<br>Research done in 2017 showed that 168 children to elderly were using gadgets<br>(100%). The purpose of this study was to find out how dependent a person is on the<br>gadget. Respondents of this study were the 270 university students. The method<br>used in this study was descriptive utilizing the accidental sampling technique. The<br>results showed that: 100% of the respondents feel the gadget is vibrating even if it<br>doesn’t. 99.6% of respondents check gadget every now and then, respondents bring<br>the gadget to the bathroom (99.6%), and panic when gadget is not found (99.6%).<br>Further results revealed that 99.3 % of the respondents are more preoccupied with<br>their gadget and 99.6% of them examined their gadgets regularly. This study<br>concluded that students are very dependent on their gadgets since these are their<br>source of information.</p> ER -