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To study self-control, smartphone overuse and their association among 120 late adolescent students of aged 18-21 years. For collecting and analyzing participants� data, used PMPU questionnaire (Billieux et al., 2008) for smartphone overuse and BSCS (Tangney et al., 2004) for self-control. The findings were unveiled that gender group differences were significantly found in dangerous use (t=3.91; p<.05), dependent use (t=4.71; p<.05), financial problems (t=4.19; p<.05), and self-control (t=5.62; p<.05) respectively. Stream group differences were significantly found in dangerous use (t=4.88; p<.05) and dependent use (t=2.25; p<.05) but no stream group differences were found in self-control. It was evidenced that self-control was found as a negative correlation with dangerous use (r=-.270; p<.05), prohibited use (r=-.312; p<.05), dependence use (r=-.725; p<.01), and financial problems (r=-.405; p<.01). Further it was evidenced that self-control was found to negatively and significantly predict dangerous use (R2=7.3%; F=9.30; t=-3.05; p<.01), prohibited use (R2=9.7%; F=12.73; t=-3.57; p<.01), dependent use (R2=52.5%; F=130.54; t=-11.43; p<.01), and financial problems (R2=16.4%; F=23.20; t=-4.82; p<.01) through regression analysis. This study has been concluded that students who use smartphones excessively having low self-control over their gadgets.