Volume : IX, Issue : VI, June - 2019

EFFECT OF INFORMATION BOOKLET (I B) ON KNOWLEDGE OF INTERNET ADDICTION AND ITS IMPACT ON LIFE STYLE AMONG UNDERGRADUATES.

Jyotsna Chakraborty, Moitryee Choudhuri

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Social networking sites have risen in popularity over the past years. Students are spending an excessive amount of time on the internet and prone to internet addiction. Pre experimental study was conducted on internet addiction and its impacts on lifestyle among undergraduates at selected college, West Bengal. The study objectives were to develop and validate an information booklet on internet addiction and its impact, to determine the knowledge on internet addiction and its impact, to evaluate the effect of information booklet and to find out the association between the knowledge and demographic variables. Conceptual framework adopted for the study was based on Health Belief Model. One group pre–test post–test research design was adopted. Sixty students was selected by systematic random sampling technique. Validated and pre tested knowledge questionnaire and information booklets were used for data collection. Findings revealed that the mean post test knowledge score (23.88) higher than mean pre–test knowledge score (14.91) with a mean difference of 8.79. Further result revealed that computed “t”value was highly significance (14.17, 59 df) at 0.05 level of significance. The study concluded that majority students had poor knowledge in pre–test and markedly improved in post–test which indicates information booklet was effective

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EFFECT OF INFORMATION BOOKLET (I B) ON KNOWLEDGE OF INTERNET ADDICTION AND ITS IMPACT ON LIFE STYLE AMONG UNDERGRADUATES., Jyotsna Chakraborty, Moitryee Choudhuri INDIAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED RESEARCH : Volume-9 | Issue-6 | June-2019

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