Psychosocial Consequeses of Intensive Internet Use among Undergraduates of Universities in Ilorin Metropolis

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dc.contributor.author15. Akanbi, M. L.
dc.contributor.authorSulaiman, K. A
dc.contributor.authorAdeyemi, I. O.
dc.date.accessioned2018-07-04T14:10:42Z
dc.date.available2018-07-04T14:10:42Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.descriptionMain articleen_US
dc.description.abstractThis 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.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipSelfen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/837
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisher. Library Philosophy practices (e-journal) , Libraries at Universities of Nebraska –Lincolnen_US
dc.subjectPsychosocialen_US
dc.subjectConsequesesen_US
dc.subjectInternet Useen_US
dc.subjectUndergraduatesen_US
dc.subjectUniversitiesen_US
dc.subjectIlorin Metropolisen_US
dc.titlePsychosocial Consequeses of Intensive Internet Use among Undergraduates of Universities in Ilorin Metropolisen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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