Relationship between the use of mobile phones and students’ moral character in senior secondary schools in Ilorin metropolis
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2018-10
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Faculty of Education Niger Delta University Wilberforce Island, Bayelsa State, Nigeria.
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This study examined the relationship between the use of mobile phones and students’ moral characters in senior secondary schools in Ilorin metropolis of Kwara State, Nigeria. The study population consisted of selected staffs of two boarding secondary schools in Ilorin. One hundred and eight staff was sampled proportionately through purposive sampling technique of 80% of the staff strength of the three selected schools. A 20-item researchers' designed questionnaire which consisted of two sections with construct validity and 0.69 reliability index was used to elicit the needed data from the respondents. The data collected were analyzed using mean, frequency table, percentage, standard deviation and Spearman's rho which was used to test the hypothesis at 0.05 alpha level of significance. The findings revealed that usage of mobile phones by students in senior secondary schools in Ilorin metropolis has negative effects on their moral character. The hypothesis showed that antisocial character of students in boarding secondary school is positively related to mobile phone usage. Base on the finding of the study, it was recommended among others that, there should be only one fixed telephone to be used by every student when the need to communicate with parents/guardians arises without secret discussion. The prohibition of mobile phone usage by students should cover the entire school premises rather than be being limited to classroom and students should be closely monitored by parents/guardians and school authority for the undesirable change in characters.
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Moral, character, mobile phone, antisocial