IMPACT OF PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT ON FREQUENCY OF INTERNET USAGE BY STUDENTS
Keywords:
Internet, Research Students, Parental Involvement, PAU (Ludhiana)Abstract
The Internet is revolutionizing our society, our economy and our technological systems. The internet is quickly and widely diffusing in our society, as both parents and children find themselves e-mailing, web messaging, listening to music and reading the news on the world-wide web. Keeping in view the importance of internet in students’ life, the present research paper has been planned with the objectives; to work out the extent of internet usage by research students; and to evaluate the effect of parental involvement on internet usage by students. For the purpose of collection of the primary data needed for the present study, a questionnaire was structured for students along with The Parental Involvement Scale (TPIS) developed by Dr. Vijaya Laxmi Chouhan and Mrs. Gunjan Ganotra Arora, Manasavi, National Psychological Corporation. The data from students were collected in the questionnaire through personal interview method. The collected data were analyzed by applying t-test, chi-square test and Z-test. After analyzing the data, it was found that 73.48 percent of male respondents and 55.88 percent of female respondents used to surf internet daily. The analysis revealed that the structuring of data collection tools, searching related literature and preparing the class assignments were the priority topics for the male as well as female researchers. None of the respondents experienced a low level of parental involvement in their life. The highest proportion i.e. 64.39 percent of male respondents experienced a medium level of parental involvement in their life, while the highest proportion i.e. 58.82 percent of female respondents experienced a high level of parental involvement. The significant finding of the study was that the parental involvement and internet usage are inversely related with each other.
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