Investigating the Relationship Between the Amount and the Way of Using Mobile Phones with Achievement Motivation and Educational among Female Students in Yazd City

Abstract

Introduction:Using cell phone has become an inseparable part of the life in the recent years. In spite of the useful usage of the cell phone, its constant over-use makes the field for people’s addiction and harms. The purpose of the present research is to analyze the relation between the cell phone’s scale and the way of use with the motivation of educational progress among the female students’ of the ninth grade of high schools in Yazd Township.

Methed: The understudy model in this research was 288 persons who were chosen according to Krejci & Morgan tables. The Random-Cluster Testing model was multi-leveled that had been chosen randomly among the female high schools of Zone two. The means of use were cell-phone over-use scale (COS) Jenaro, et.al (2007), the questionnaire of cell-phone’s usage type (Manteghi, 1389), Achievement Motivation Test (AMT) Hermens (1987).The Correlation Test of Pierson and Regression has been used to analyze the data.

Resulth:The result of data analysis showed that there is no relation between harmful usage of cell phone and achievement motivation (p>0.05), a positive meaningful relation between the software use and the use of calendar and time with achievement motivation (p<0.05).

Conclusions:The result showed that the use of some of cell phone’s options which are according to the present needs of learners can be effective greatly. Albeit the results shows the necessity of programmers and authorities’ attention to the growing spread of harmful usage of cell phone in the high schools.