Psychosocial Consequences of Intensive Internet Use among Undergraduates of Universities in Ilorin Metropolis

Authors

M. L. Akanbi, University of Ilorin, NIgeriaFollow
Kabir Alabi Sulaiman, University of Ilorin, NIgeriaFollow
Ismail Olatunji Adeyemi, University of Ilorin, NigeriaFollow

Date of this Version

4-3-2018

Document Type

Article

Citation

Akanbi, M. L., Sulaiman, K. A. and Adeyemi, I. O. (2018). Psychosocial Consequences of Intensive Internet Use among Undergraduates of Universities in Ilorin Metropolis, Library Philosophy and Practice

Comments

This study was carried out in universities in Ilorin which comprises University of Ilorin and Alhikmah University.

Abstract

This study was carried out to investigate the psychosocial consequences of intensive internet use among undergraduate of universities in Ilorin metropolis, Kwara State. This study sought to determine the psychosocial consequences of intensive internet use on the basis on gender, age, level of study and marital status (University of Ilorin and AL-HIKMAH University) universities within Ilorin metropolis. A self-developed questionnaire tagged questionnaire on psychosocial consequences of intensive internet use (PCIIU) was used to collect data from the respondents for the study. Five research hypotheses were formulated and tested at 0.05 alpha level of significance, data collected were analyzed through analysis of variance (ANOVA). The study revealed that psychosocial consequences of intensive internet use are establishing using new relationship with fellow online users; incur more financial cost on internet; spending more time online than going out with others and there was significant gender difference in the psychosocial consequences of intensive internet use among undergraduate students of universities in Ilorin metropolis base on age, level, gender and marital status. Therefore, the following recommendations were made that counsellors should develop strategies to handle internet addiction among the youth and counsellor should encourage the formation of club that will promote safe and responsible internet use among students (peer counselling) and school administrators, teachers and school counsellors should work collaboratively to identify and assist students with or prone to internet addiction before it will have devastating consequences on the addicts and the society at large.