Open AccessInternet Inclination as A Consequence of Idleness Among the College Students
Author(s) -
Oluwatobi Akanbi,
Mojirola Silifat Adedeji,
Owen Adams
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
international journal of scientific research in science, engineering and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2395-1990
pISSN - 2394-4099
DOI - 10.32628/ijsrset19654
Subject(s) - the internet , scale (ratio) , psychology , test (biology) , feeling , bivariate analysis , social psychology , mathematics , statistics , computer science , geography , world wide web , biology , cartography , ecology
This research aims to investigate internet inclination as a consequence of idleness. It was hypothesized that internet inclination is a consequence of idleness. There have been many findings conducted about the impact of internet inclination worldwide, however in Nigeria; there is dearth of researches related to specific area of relationship of internet inclination with idleness. In other to test the hypothesis, 600 students (300 males and 300 females) were purposively sampled from Federal College of Forestry, Ibadan, Nigeria. Their average age was 20.5 and standard deviation was 1.9. Participants was approached and responded to questionnaires. To assess the dependence of oneself on internet, the Compulsive Internet Use Scale (CIUS) was used. Differential Idleness Scale – short student version (DIS) was used to assess one’s social segregation. Bivariate Correlation revealed that high user of internet is also high feeling of idleness. Therefore, the results indicated that internet inclination is a significant consequence of idleness.