Question

in the article "the relationship between cell phone use and academic performance in a sample of U.S. college students" anwers this question

what were the major limits ( generalizability, something not measured in the current study that may be have affected the results) of the study according to the author ? you?

Answer 1

The Limitations according to the author are:-

• First, cell phone use was self-reported. Although the self-report measure used in this study was carefully developed to assure content validity and a subsequent test provided evidence of criterion validity, research by Boase and Ling (2013) illustrates that continuous, open-ended self-report cell phone measures are at risk of over reporting use. In lieu of objective data, future studies may seek to further validate this measure. Furthermore, future studies should assess the time devoted to common specific uses such as social networking, gaming, and information search, in addition to measuring overall use as was done here.
• Second, the sample consisted of undergraduate college students from a single, large, public university in the Midwestern United States. Although the behavioral norms governing cell phone use appear to be consistent among today’s college students (Anderson & Rainie, 2011; Tindell & Bohlander, 2012), attempts to generalize these results to other populations should be made with caution. Therefore, future research should include college students from different types of universities and from different geographic regions. In addition, high school and junior high school students should be studied as recent research suggests that the relationships identified here may be evident in younger students as well.

While studying the researching and understanding the aspects of the exploratory aspects of the presented study i agree with the researcher in the matters of limitations since they best suit eith the results presented through the study about use of cellphone and academic performance.