Perceived Impact of Social Media on Higher Secondary School Students
| dc.contributor.advisor | Kundu, Poonam | |
| dc.contributor.author | Sanyogita | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-02-04T08:45:22Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-02-04T08:45:22Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2019 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Social media has exploded as a category of online discourse where people create content, share it, bookmark it and network at a prodigious rate. Social media is fast changing the public discourse in society and setting trends and agenda in topics that range from the environment and politics to technology and the entertainment industry. The study was conducted in Hisar district of Haryana state. It was a comparative study of rural v/s urban schools. For the present investigation four schools (two private and two government higher secondary schools) were selected from both the areas. From the selected schools XI and XII standard 40 students (both male and female) were selected randomly from respective schools. The sample comprised of 160 students, 160 parents and 25 teachers were selected randomly. Thus the total sample comprised of 345 respondents. Two separate well structured interview schedules were developed for data collection. The collected data were quantified and interpreted by using suitable statistical tools to draw meaningful inference. Personal profile of the students revealed that majority of the students were belonged to 17-18 years of age were male, studying in XII standard with arts as a major stream. Most of the students were fall under second ordinal position and had 2-3 numbers of siblings. Most of the parents were between 35-45 years of age group belonged to backward class and educated upto higher secondary level in both the schools. Both parents and students keep themselves updates with latest know and how through newspaper, television, mobile phones, and mobile with internet connections. Majority of the students were aware and utilizing social media such as facebook whatsapp, youtube, messenger and wikipedia and generally spent more than two hours on social media irrespective of their locale. Most of the students perceived the impact of the social media in terms of loneliness, loss of appetite and stress. However parents and teachers perceived the mental impact of social media in terms of loss of appetite, stress, insomnia, loneliness and decrease self confidence and perceived physical impact of the social media was observed in case of eyes strain, headache, ringxiety and inclination towards eating junk foods while using social media. Whereas perceived social impact was felt in terms of lack of interaction with parents, neighbours and relatives. The results further highlighted the facts that rural parents and teachers had unfavourable attitude towards social media whereas teachers had favorable attitude towards social media. In case of urban area majority of parents and teachers both had favorable attitude towards social media. Relationship between dependent and independent variables showed age was positively correlated with physical and social health of the students whereas education was positively correlated with all the three parameters viz; mental, physical and social health of the students. This showed that young and educated person is more conscious and vigilant regarding the mental, physical and social health of their children. Most common constraints felt by the students were; parents disapproval, non availability of net facilities and perceived internet as a costly affair. Hence in order to solve the above mentioned problems it is recommended that parents should themselves equipped with computer skill so that they can guide their children properly in terms of how, when and what type of social media they should use in order to show the right path to their children. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810142435 | |
| dc.keywords | Social media, communication, social apps, internet, utilization, attitude, impact, health | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | CCSHAU | en_US |
| dc.sub | Extension Education | en_US |
| dc.subject | null | en_US |
| dc.theme | Perceived Impact of Social Media on Higher Secondary School Students | en_US |
| dc.these.type | M.Sc | en_US |
| dc.title | Perceived Impact of Social Media on Higher Secondary School Students | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |