The Impact of Smartphone on Universitarian Psychological Wellbeing

Abstract

The purpose of this study to discover the impact of Smartphone on human psychological well-being. This study is done from the perspective of Empirical Phenomenological Research, Qualitative. The method to collect the data is observation and inventory / an unstructured interview. The observation is done among Timorese universitarian in Malang. At the same time, had been done an interviewed on 15 subjects. The analysis the data is using descriptive through phenomenological, eidetic and transcendental reduction. The Result of the research shown that there are two impacts of the smartphone on universitarian such as positive negative. There are positive impacts because the utilization of smartphone is facilitating universitarian to reach psychological wellbeing. It became a smartphone been used to obtain well-being by communicating and chatting with family and friends. The further positive function is facilitating universitarian to develop their human resources/skill by studying. The negative impact was the frequencies of using the smartphone. Some universitarian used most of their time to play games (irritating eyes). Some of them are using headset frequently it is trouble for hearing. Therefore universitarian needs to wisely use the smartphone.