PENGARUH PENGGUNAAN SMARTPHONE TEHADAP POLA KOMUNIKASI INTERPESONAL SISWA SMP NEGERI 50 BANDUNG

<p>ABSTRACT<br />Nowadays smartphones can be consumed from young to old age. Motives teenagers in using the<br />smartphone quite diverse, namely, the sophistication of features, fast internet access, ease of access<br />to social media, entertainment facilities and help in doing homework. In early January 2017, SMP<br />Negeri 50 Bandung set a ban on bringing smartphones to school, due to the recent years the influence<br />of smartphone making problems in school. This study was conducted to find out how much the influence<br />of using smartphones to interpersonal communication patterns of students of SMP Negeri 50 Bandung.<br />This research is associated with Uses and Gratification theory and the method is quantitative with the<br />type of descriptive research. This study involved one independent variable and one dependent variable.<br />Using probability sampling method with Slovin approach with the number of respondents 82 people.<br />Data analysis techniques used are descriptive and multiple linear regression analysis. Based on the</p><p>results of simultaneous hypothesis testing, a significant influence on the use of smartphones against<br />interpesonal communication patterns. This is evidenced by the value of F-count(41.644)&gt; F-table<br />(2.722) with a significance level of 5%. The result of coefficient of determination showed that Frequency<br />of Use, the Variety of Content and Activity give influence of 61,6% to Interpersonal Communication<br />Pattern of students of SMP Negeri 50 Bandung. While the action of 38.4% is the contribution of other<br />variables that are not examined in this study. Can be concluded that SMP Negeri 50 Bandung prohibits<br />bringing smartphones to school so obtained despite the prohibition of bringing the smartphone in effect<br />to make high interpersonal communication patterns of students of SMP Negeri 50 Bandung.<br />Keywords: smartphone usage, interpersonal communication, pattern of interpersonal communication,<br />uses and gratification.