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Assessment and comparison of mean scores of knowledge and usage of internet according to different professional students
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The study aimed to determine internet access and usage among different professional students as it is a major upcoming tool for professional education. This cross-sectional survey was done using a self administered structured questionnaire containing 15 dichotomous and 5 multiple choice questions pre-tested through a pilot survey. The obtained data...
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... In both studies, students indicated their biggest barrier for not using the internet included a lack of time, followed by the cost of using the internet. Similar results were obtained by Kochhar, et al., (2013) who found lack of time and cost of using as the biggest barriers to using the internet. ...
... and Internet Addiction is greater in males than females. The finding is also supported by an Indian study [31] . This overuse of the internet among male in Indian settings can be because of more freedom and accessibility men experiences due to the societal structure of the country in comparison to female students. ...
Background: Besides making life easy, the smartphone has brought many psychological issues to their verge. Especially, the face-to-face communication of humans is facing challenges. A common behaviour encountered during social conversations is the use of smartphones simultaneously while conversing, which psychologists have termed as Phubbing. Aim: To explore Phubbing Behaviour in relation to its determinants, namely, Mobile phone usage and Internet Addiction, Gaming Addiction and Fear of Missing Out among young adults. Materials and Method: The sample comprised of 184 young adults in the age range of 18 to 30 years, of which 83 are males and 101 are females, belonging to the middle class socioeconomic strata of India. The participants completed the e-questionnaires comprising of Mobile Phone Usage and Internet Addiction Scale, Game Addiction Scale, Fear of Missing Out Scale and Phubbing Scale. Firstly, evaluation of mean and standard deviation, have been done; secondly, independent samples t-test has been employed to reveal the significant difference of mean scores between the male group and the female group involved in the study. Furthermore, a correlation has been incorporated to establish the relationship between Phubbing behaviour and all the other factors. Results: The findings suggest that there exists a positive significant correlation between phubbing behaviour and its determinants. The study further indicates that there prevails a significant difference in mean scores on gaming addiction between the male group and the female group. Conclusions: The research variables overlap and have circular relationships.
... Research examining gender differences in patterns of internet usage with Indian college students have found mixed results. Some studies have found no statistically significant gender differences in internet usage (Chawla, Khan, & Pandey, 2015;Rai, 2014), while others like Thanuskodi (2013) and Kochhar, et. al. (2013) found gender differences in usage patterns. Along these lines, Dange, Girish, Savitha, Jogan, & Veenakumari (2013) found no significant differences (p > .05) were obtained between males and females for awareness of digital information sources, usage of digital information sources, awareness of digital information services, and usage of ...
... tween frequency of internet usage and gender of the student. In addition, no significant association between gender and frequency of information searched and internet use; gender and average time spent per day on the internet; gender and purpose for which the internet is used; and gender type of information preferred on the internet were obtained. Kochhar et. al., (2013) examined knowledge and use of the internet with 735 students (41.5% males, 58.5% females) from professional institutes in Sangrur. ...
... inment (57.2%), and communication (52.4%); while females used the internet most frequently for education (44.8), entertainment (44.8%), and research (38.5%). Along those lines, Malik &Mahmood (2009) andVijesh (2019) found that students used web for diverse purposes like academic work, education, research, entertainment, sports, and shopping, while Kochhar, et. al., (2013) found that respondents used the internet for Facebook/Orkut, news/education and for email. Students were asked to indicate diverse purposes for using the internet. Significant gender differences were obtained for five items: to obtain general information, to download music/games, for online banking, for social networking, and for chatti ...
The purpose of the study was to investigate gender differences in internet usage with 323 college students (145 male, 174 female) from Mumbai, India. A specially designed 26-item structured questionnaire was administered to determine gender differences in technology ownership, internet skills and experience, internet knowledge and access, time spent on the internet, purposes for using the internet, and barriers to using the internet. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to examine gender differences in internet usage. The results indicated that 98.6% of males and 92.5% of females were internet users. More females (55.7%) had attended a computer training course than males (46.8%). No gender differences were obtained in internet skills; however, males experienced significantly higher levels of internet experience than females (p < .01). Males and females first started using the internet at home, they accessed the internet daily, they obtained their internet knowledge from self-study, and used the internet most frequently at home. Both males and females used the internet most frequently to "chat with friends" and rarely used the internet for "electronic group discussions". When asked to indicate purposes for internet usage, significant gender differences were obtained for five items: to obtain general information, to download music/games, for online banking, for social networking, and for chatting with friends. The biggest barriers to using the internet for both males and females were a lack of time and cost of using.
... Abedalaziz, N., Jamaluddin, S., Leng, C. H., (2013), in the study entitled, "Measuring Attitudes Towards Computer and Internet Usage Among Postgraduate Students in Malaysia," revealed that participants had a high level perception of the usefulness and their control of the computer and Internet, no significant differences were found between participants" attitudes toward the Internet and computer related with gender, field of study, and ethnicity and postgraduate student"s attitudes toward computer and Internet usage was found to be age related. Kochhar, S., et al., (2013), in their study, "Knowledge and Usage of Internet among different professional students in India," found that majority of participants used internet for social networking sites rather than study purpose and reported home as the best place for internet usage. Males showed more scores than their counterparts and among all professional engineering students had a higher level of knowledge and accessing to it (p<0.05). ...
... The intended audience consists of masters' level students and doctoral students who want to learn exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis. In another Indian study Kochhar, et al (2013) studied knowledge and usage of internet among different professional students in India. Greater proportion of participants used internet for social networking sites rather than study purpose. ...
... As it has been observed from different findings from our review of literature, that results of the present study do support the earlier findings (Bimber, 2000) which says that male use internet more than female. It is also supported by Indian study (Kochhar, et al, 2013). This overuse of internet among male in Indian settings could be more freedom to them in comparison to female students in our male dominated society. ...
Present study is designed to find out the gender difference on internet addiction among students. The sample consisted of 200 high school students, age ranging from 14 to 16 years drawn randomly from SGGR Rishikesh: English medium school, of Uttarakhand: India. Data is collected by administering Internet Addiction Test (IAT). Gender difference is examined through the significance of the difference between means. Results show that there is found significant difference between male and female students in terms internet addiction. It is concluded that there can be important role of gender among students for internet addiction. Some recommendations are included in conclusion.
... There was an increase in frequency of internet usage from the pretest to the posttest, where more students indicated using the internet daily, once in a week, and once in a month. More students also indicated (in the posttest) they had worked on the computer in the past year, have a computer at home, and have internet at home. Kochhar, et al., (2013) examined knowledge and usage of internet among a total of 735 (305 male, 430 female) professional dental, engineering, and nursing students from Sangrur, India. The results indicated that " …84% of the participants had experience of using internet with various frequencies. Most of them used (36.4%) used it more than once a day and very ...
... ce can be attributed to the fact that aided students have fewer resources to access the internet, while as unaided students who have resources and are using them for education and research may lack time to use the internet. In their study, Jali et al., (2014), only 5.6% of the students cited lack of time as the reason for their computer illiteracy. Kochhar et al., (2013) found a lack of time and cost of using to be the biggest barriers to using the internet. Loan (2011) examined internet use by 676 college students and found that information overload (39.7%) and internet illiteracy (23.8%) were the most common problems faced by students when searching the internet. It is recommended that students in the ...
This empirical study examines internet usage and the kind of college attended (Aided, Unaided) with Indian students (n = 323). A total of 107 students from an aided college and 216 from two unaided colleges in Mumbai completed surveys regarding technology ownership, computer confidence, internet knowledge and experience, internet access, purposes for using the internet, and barriers to internet usage. The results indicated that 92.5% of aided students and 97.7% of unaided students were internet users. More students from the unaided colleges owned laptop and desktop computers than students from the aided college. For internet access, 79.4% of the aided students and 80.0% of the unaided students accessed the internet from their mobile phones. Both students from the aided and unaided colleges used the internet most frequently at home. The aided students used the internet most frequently for entertainment (57.0%), while as the unaided students used it for education (57.4%). Both groups of students used the internet very frequently to chat with friends, for social networking, email, and to obtain general information. For the aided students, the biggest barriers to using the internet were a lack of time (42.0%) and cost of using (41.1%) and for unaided students were a lack of time (65.7%) and lack of internet at home (19.9%). Implications of the results are discussed.
... Sumit Kochhar et al. (2013)revealed that engineering students used internet more than their other colleagues because they had no accessibility of internet at the institution. ...
... lack of interest (5.71%), cost of accessing (20%), and privacy (<50%) while ours were 11.4%, 8.9%, 8.3%, 0.6%, respectively. [8] The data obtained indicates that majority of the medical students participated in the study embrace and use internet for entertainment. ...
Background: Most of the medical students are using e-Devices. This study was conducted to find the nature, impact, whether beneficial or adverse, the e-Devices are having on student’s academics, physical and mental health and, is making their life convenient or harming them. Material and Methods: Cross-sectional study was conducted in a private
medical college in central Kerala and proportions, test of significance like Chi square, t test was used. Objectives: To
find the prevalence and pattern of utilization of electronic devices; to evaluate the pattern, purpose of internet usage and factors influencing it; and to assess the need for incorporating computer education in medical curriculum. Results: 350
students participated in the research.90(25.7%) of students don’t spend money to get access to internet. 255(79.45%)
spend 2 hours or less on the internet. 296(84.6%) of students use internet for academic purposes. 152(43.4%) felt that e-
Devices made their academic performance better while 40(11.4%) of the students felt it to be worse. 88(25.1%) prefer reading e books over conventional textbooks. 213(60.9%) do not have any problem while using internet but 96(27.4%)
students had problems of eye strain while using internet. Conclusions: Most students seem to be able to balance the e-
Device used and use it for academic purpose and making their lives efficient. But few got their academic performance worse, and some are suffering from eye strain, so efficient management of time on e-devices and internet without
hindering their academic performance is needed.
This study examines whether there are differences in the tendency of gadget addiction in terms of gender in elementary school students. The research subjects were 60 elementary school students grade 4,5 and 6 who were selected using purposive sampling. . The data analysis technique used is independent sample t-test. Statistical analysis result with independent samples t-test showed that there was significant difference in the tendency of gadget addiction in terms of the sex of male and female students (t = 3,229, p = 0.002, p <0.05). This shows that the research hypothesis is accepted which means that there are differences in the tendency of gadget addiction in terms of gender. Men have an average tendency of gadget addiction tendencies that is higher at 51.53 compared to female students at 47.62.
Introduction: This study was conducted to find the nature, impact, whether beneficial or adverse, the e-Devices are having on student’s academics, physical and mental health and, is making their life convenient or harming them. Material and Methods: Cross-sectional study was conducted in a private medical college in central Kerala and proportions, test of significance like Chi square, t test was used. Objectives: To find the prevalence and pattern of utilization of electronic devices; to evaluate the pattern, purpose of internet usage and factors influencing it; and to assess the need for incorporating computer education in medical curriculum. Results: 350 students participated in the research; 90(25.7%) of students don’t spend money to get access to internet; 255(79.45%) spend 2 hours or less on the internet; 296(84.6%) of students use internet for academic purposes; 152(43.4%) felt that e-Devices made their academic performance better while 40(11.4%) of the students felt it to be worse. 88(25.1%) prefer reading e books over conventional textbooks. 213(60.9%) do not have any problem while using internet but 96(27.4%) students had problems of eye strain while using internet. Conclusions: Most students seem to be able to balance the e-Device used and use it for academic purpose and making their lives efficient. But few got their academic performance worse, and some are suffering from eye strain, so efficient management of time on e-devices and internet without hindering their academic performance is needed.
