INFLUENCES OF INTERNET ON SOCIAL SKILL DEVELOPMENT OF RURAL AND URBAN ADOLESCENTS IN COIMBATORE DISTRICT

Ipsita Borgohain; Dr. S. Jaya

Volume : IV, Issue : IX, September - 2015

INFLUENCES OF INTERNET ON SOCIAL SKILL DEVELOPMENT OF RURAL AND URBAN ADOLESCENTS IN COIMBATORE DISTRICT

Ipsita Borgohain, Dr. S. Jaya

Abstract :

The quality and availability of Internet facilities are differ between urban and rural regions. Urban adolescents enjoy the benefits of high-speed Internet facilities which enable them to develop various skills. Adolescents residing in rural areas are disadvantaged by low quality access to Internet services due to lack of infrastructure development. So both rural and urban adolescent Internet users have developmental differences of various skills. The main objective of the present study was to find out the influence of Internet on developmental differences of social skills of rural and urban adolescent Internet users. The study was conducted on 600 adolescents age group of 15-17 residing and studying in class IX, X and XI of two government and two private higher secondary schools in rural and urban areas in Coimbatore district, Tamilnadu. Simple random sampling technique was used to select the sample of one hundred and fifty students from each school. Survey based method and self–constructed questionnaire was used to collect the data. The main result from the present study is that the adolescents of urban areas were more positively influenced by Internet and developed more social skills than adolescents of rural areas.