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Digital Indulgence is the ever-increasing reliance on digital devices, such as mobile phones, laptops, desktops, tablets, gaming consoles, e-book readers, for doing miniscule things ranging from education to entertainment, gaming to multimedia, memorizing dates and events to doing simple arithmetic. In this digital era, human being is quite often surrounded by digital devices and their usage has crept in every walk of life. The digital device usage of the students has increased manifold in the post-COVID world, leading towards digital indulgence. The present study aims to study the Digital Indulgence of secondary school students in relation to their gender, type of school, family type and family income. The present study is conducted on a sample of 155 secondary school students from two different schools (one government and one private) of Patna. Survey method has been employed for conducting the study and the data was conducted using Likert five-point scale. Findings of the present study reveals that there is significant difference in the Digital Indulgence of Male and Female secondary school students. The Digital Indulgence of Male secondary school students is significantly higher than their female counterparts. Further, there is significant difference in the Digital Indulgence of secondary school students on the basis of school type, family type and family income. The students studying in private schools and living in nuclear family have significantly higher Digital Indulgence than those studying in government schools and living in Joint family.