Life Skills and Social Networking Among Emerging Adults
| dc.contributor.advisor | Yadav, V. S. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Hundekar, Parwatemma | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-02-28T04:03:40Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-02-28T04:03:40Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2016-01 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The study on Life skills and social networking among emerging adults was conducted during the year 2015-16 with objective to identify the level of life skills and to assess how the social networking (SN) influencing life skills. The study comprised 1024 emerging adults with the age range of 18-30 years and data were collected through online and offline survey. Results revealed that the developed scale is standardized. On life skills, 81 to 88 per cent of emerging adults were highly dominant in decision making, effective communication and coping with stress. Correspondingly, 72% to 78% of emerging adults were more prone to self awareness, interpersonal relationship, creative thinking and empathy, Similarly 46% to 59% of emerging adults were predominant in problem solving, critical thinking and coping with emotion. On social networking, majority of the emerging adults had more online friends and round 98.5 percent of the respondents were possessed the mobile phone and they preferred mobile phones (97.0%) for communication and 100 per cent of them connect to the internet through mobiles. On an average, the respondents spent 2 hour 30 minutes in internet per week and 1 hour 7 minutes in social networking sites daily. Around 98 percent of the respondents were quoted the reasons for using SN is to make new friends and they were connecting and sharing their personal details only to those very close to them (79.1%). Around 87 per cent were to create the account with their original name to form their own identity in the online forum and they trusted the online because of immediate response (95.0%) as well use used privacy settings (73.6%) as safety measures. About 84 per cent experienced cyber bullying and perceived that the bullies did the bullying due to take revenge, fun and entertainment (87.0%) and felt frustrated (93.0%), hurt (83.4%) and scared (83.4%). Hence they countered the cyber bullying by discussing with their friends (92.0%). Social networking properties namely, activities do in the SN sites, alternatives using to maintain privacy, identity, trust and safety measures, types of cyber bullying the respondents experienced, their feelings and methods to counter the cyber bullying showed negative relationship with life skills such as problem solving, decision making, critical thinking, effective communication, interpersonal relationship, empathy, coping with emotions and stress. Social networking properties showed positive relationship with self awareness and there was no relationship between social networking properties and creative thinking skills. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810143847 | |
| dc.keywords | Life Skills and Social Networking Among Emerging Adults | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.pages | 298p | en_US |
| dc.publisher | University of Agricultural Science, Dharwad | en_US |
| dc.research.problem | Life Skills and Social Networking Among Emerging Adults | en_US |
| dc.sub | Human Development and Family Studies | |
| dc.subject | null | en_US |
| dc.theme | Life Skills and Social Networking Among Emerging Adults | en_US |
| dc.these.type | Ph.D | en_US |
| dc.title | Life Skills and Social Networking Among Emerging Adults | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |