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Internet w życiu młodzieży licealnej – statystyczna analiza na podstawie badania ankietowego
The internet in the life of high school youth – a statistical analysis based on a survey

Author(s): Mieczysław Jan Król, Joanna Trybuła
Subject(s): Communication studies, Sociology, Socio-Economic Research
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego
Keywords: information society; questionnaire survey; Internet in school; Nowy Targ town

Summary/Abstract: In order to assess the level of development of the information society, in addition to theknowledge of the impact of the Internet on social life, the opinion of school students about itsadvantages and disadvantages is also important. This social group quickly discovers the potentialapplication possibilities of the Internet. The virtual world generated by the Internet creates anopportunity to achieve positive as well as negative goals, influencing the personality of the youngster.The paper presents the results of a survey aimed at obtaining opinion from both male andfemale students of S. Goszczyński Secondary School number 1 in Nowy Targ on advantages anddisadvantages of the Internet. A total of 109 students took part in the survey, including 57 femalestudents and 52 male ones. The results of the research were developed separately for female andmale students, taking into account, among others, issues related to: activities connected with theInternet, the use of Internet resources and services, communication via the Internet and its use forlearning, as well as the risks associated with its use. Moreover, the values of the similarity coefficientof the structure of the distribution of responses in the samples of both male and female studentswere presented, as well as the power of the statistical relationship of indications depending on thestudent’s sex was examined.

  • Issue Year: 2019
  • Issue No: 58
  • Page Range: 312-328
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Polish
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