A study of research attitude and stream differences among post graduate students with respect to use and non-use of internet
International Journal of Development Research
A study of research attitude and stream differences among post graduate students with respect to use and non-use of internet
Received 25th April, 2017; Received in revised form 14th May, 2017; Accepted 06th June, 2017; Published online 22nd July, 2017
Copyright ©2017, Dr. Syed Noor-ul-Amin. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
The purpose of the present study was to compare the attitude towards research of Internet-users and Internet non-user university students on the basis of their stream differences. The sample of 600 post graduate students (300 Internet-users and 300 Internet non-users) were selected through simple random sampling technique from various departments of three faculties (faculty of Science, faculty of Social science and faculty of Arts) of University of Kashmir, (J&K)INDIA. Attitude towards Research Scale by Vishal Sood and Y. K. Sharma used to collect the data. Besides, Information Blank developed by the investigators to find the Internet-users and Internet Non-users. The data was subjected to statistical analysis by computing Mean, S.D. and test of significance. The results concluded that Internet-users and Internet Non-users from all the three streams were found significantly different. Internet-user group of subjects from all the three streams viz. Science stream, Social science stream and Arts stream found with a favourable Attitude towards Research as against to their comparable group.
