Psychosocial Consequeses of Intensive Internet Use among Undergraduates of Universities in Ilorin Metropolis
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2018
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. Library Philosophy practices (e-journal) , Libraries at Universities of Nebraska –Lincoln
Abstract
This study was carried out to investigate the psychosocial consequences of intensive internet use
among undergraduate of universities in Ilorin metropolis, Kwara State. This study sought to
determine the psychosocial consequences of intensive internet use on the basis on gender, age,
level of study and marital status (University of Ilorin and AL-HIKMAH University) universities
within Ilorin metropolis. A self-developed questionnaire tagged questionnaire on psychosocial
consequences of intensive internet use (PCIIU) was used to collect data from the respondents for
the study. Five research hypotheses were formulated and tested at 0.05 alpha level of
significance, data collected were analyzed through analysis of variance (ANOVA). The study
revealed that psychosocial consequences of intensive internet use are establishing using new
relationship with fellow online users; incur more financial cost on internet; spending more time
online than going out with others and there was significant gender difference in the psychosocial
consequences of intensive internet use among undergraduate students of universities in Ilorin
metropolis base on age, level, gender and marital status. Therefore, the following
recommendations were made that counsellors should develop strategies to handle internet
addiction among the youth and counsellor should encourage the formation of club that will
promote safe and responsible internet use among students (peer counselling) and school
administrators, teachers and school counsellors should work collaboratively to identify and
assist students with or prone to internet addiction before it will have devastating consequences
on the addicts and the society at large.
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Psychosocial, Consequeses, Internet Use, Undergraduates, Universities, Ilorin Metropolis