Internet use among college students: an exploratory study.
The author and associates surveyed 1,300 college students in classrooms at eight academic institutions to identify how the students' use of the Internet has affected their social or academic lives. Although the typical Internet-using student uses the Internet for 100 minutes per day, a small group o...
| Published in: | Journal of American College Health Vol. 50; no. 1; pp. 21 - 27 |
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| Format: | case study questionnaire/scale research tables/charts Journal Article |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Jul2001
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| Online Access: | View this record in EBSCOhost |
| Summary: | The author and associates surveyed 1,300 college students in classrooms at eight academic institutions to identify how the students' use of the Internet has affected their social or academic lives. Although the typical Internet-using student uses the Internet for 100 minutes per day, a small group of students use the Internet to a degree that interferes with other aspects of their lives. Most of them are men and are found among the hard science academic majors. Some ideas for dealing with this problem are suggested. |
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