SOCIAL MEDIA USAGE AS CORRELATE OF STUDY HABITS OF STUDENTS IN PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES IN SOUTH-EAST, NIGERIA
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Social Media, Study Habits, Students, Universities, CorrelateAbstract
The main purpose of the study was to investigate social media usage as correlate of study habits of students in public universities in South-East, Nigeria. Two research questions guided the study and two hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance. The correlational survey research design was adopted for the study. The study was conducted in South-East, Nigeria. The population of the study comprised of 29,432 (300 level) regular undergraduates in the 2023/2024 academic session from seven public universities in Nigeria. Only undergraduates in Federal universities were used in the study. The sample of 320 regular undergraduates was used for the study. The multi-staged sampling procedure was used to determine the sample for the study. Two structured questionnaires developed by the researcher were used to collect data for the study. The face and content validity of the instrument was determined by subjecting the instrument for scrutiny by three experts. To determine the reliability of the instruments, a pilot study was carried out on 20 business education students in public universities in Delta State. The application of Cronbach Alpha reliability analysis on the data collected yielded reliability coeffienceints of 0.89 for QSMU and 0.85 for QSSH. Data for the study were analysed using Pearson Product Moment Correlation Analysis. The finding of the study revealed that there is a high negative relationship between social media usage and study habits of students in public universities in South-East Nigeria. The finding of the study also revealed that there is a high negative relationship between social media usage and study habits of male and female students in public universities in South-East Nigeria. Based on these findings, the researcher recommended among others that administrators of universities should orgainize time management workshops and counselling programmes to help students develop self-regulation skills
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