scholarly journals Factors Contributing to Mobile Phone Dependence Amongst Young People—Educational Implications

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 2554 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isabel Martínez-Sánchez ◽  
Rosa M. Goig-Martínez ◽  
José Álvarez-Rodríguez ◽  
Manuel Fernández-Cruz
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Mobile Phone Use ◽  
Inappropriate Use ◽  
Ex Post ◽  
Ex Post Facto ◽  
Faculty Of Education ◽  
Access To Knowledge ◽  
The University

The use of mobile devices facilitates access to knowledge and is at the base of the education of the future. Although the digital society has contributed a number of benefits, it has also been associated with worrying behaviors. The study design consisted of a quantitative approach that was descriptive, inferential and ex post facto in nature. Its purpose was to better understand the opinion of young people regarding smartphone use and describe dependence deriving from regular use. The sample was formed of 420 students from the Faculty of Education at the University of Granada. Results indicate that mobile phone use has displaced use of other technologies such as the television and is associated with communication and recreational activities. In addition, a profile was identified for young people at greater risk of developing a dependence on their mobile devices. This profile constituted female smartphone users with recreational motives and individuals who exceeded mobile phone use by more than six hours a day. To improve the educational use of smartphones, prevention and intervention plans must be designed which ensure correct management of this device, taking advantage of the benefits they offer, while avoiding problems derived from inappropriate use.

scholarly journals Factors Contributing to Mobile Phone Dependence amongst Young People: Educational Implications

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isabel Martinez-Sanchez ◽  
Rosa M. Goig-Martinez ◽  
Jose Alavarez-Rodriguez ◽  
Manuel Fernandez-Cruz
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Mobile Phone Use ◽  
Inappropriate Use ◽  
Ex Post ◽  
Ex Post Facto ◽  
Faculty Of Education ◽  
Access To Knowledge ◽  
The University

The use of mobile devices facilitates access to knowledge and is at the base of the education of the future. Although the digital society has contributed a number of benefits, however, it has also been associated with worrying behaviours. The study design consisted of a quantitative approach that was descriptive, inferential and ex post-facto in nature. Its purpose was to better understand the opinion of young people regarding mobile phone use and describe dependence deriving from regular use. The sample was formed of 420 students from the Faculty of Education at the University of Granada. Results indicate that mobile phone use has displaced use of other technologies such as the television, and is associated with communication and recreational activities. In addition, a profile was identified for young people at greater risk of developing a dependence on their mobile devices. This profile constituted females, mobile phone users with recreational motives and individuals who exceeded mobile phone use by more than six hours a day. To improve the educational use of mobile phone, prevention and intervention plans must be designed which ensure correct management of this device, taking advantage of the benefits it offers whilst avoiding problems derived from inappropriate use.

scholarly journals Levels of Employability Skills and Organisational Citizenship Behaviourof University Secretarial Staff In South-West, Nigeria

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 24-33
Author(s):  
Adeyemi Muyiwa ◽  
Margaret Moronke Dosunmu ◽  
Abolaji Olugbenga Bukki
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Citizenship ◽  
Demographic Data ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Employability Skills ◽  
South West ◽  
Ex Post ◽  
Ex Post Facto ◽  
Training Programmes ◽  
High Level ◽  
The University

The skills and competencies exhibited by the secretarial staff in a University setting show how vast is such secretary in the art of delivery of his/her services.  A secretarial staff has been considered to be the brain box of any organisation.  They are incharge of all information emanating and disseminating from the establishment; as such the role of the secretarial staff as the custodian of information in the university cannot be over-emphasized.  The aim of the study was to determine the levels of the University secretarial staff employability skills and organizational citizenship behaviour in South-West, Nigeria.  The study adopted a descriptive research design of ex-post facto type. Two research questions were raised. The sample for the study consisted of 1,209 secretarial staff in 36 universities in South-West, Nigeria selected through stratified random sampling technique.  Three instruments were used for data collection, namely: Demographic Data Form, Graduate Employability Scale (GESS), ‘r’=0.86; Organisational Citizenship Behaviour Scale (OCBS), ‘r’=0.96. Multiple Regression Analysis (MRA) and Pearson Product Moment Correlation (PPMC) were used to analyse the data at 0.05 level of significance.  The results revealed that the University secretarial staff generally possessed a high level of employability skills (50.5%) and organizational citizenship behaviour (50.8%).It was concluded that the secretarial staff generally possessed the employability skills and organisational citizenship behaviour which are needed to perform optimally in their duties. The study recommended, among others, that the secretarial staff should endeavour to seek for more knowledge to equip them with relevant employability skills that will make them to be assets to the organization. The University secretarial staff should be exposed to regular training programmes with an emphasis on how to enhance their employability skills and further improve their knowledge. Also, there is need to compensate any secretarial staff who displays the traits of organizational citizenship behavior.This will serve as motivation for other secretarial staff.

Sex, Cyberbullying, and the Mobile Phone

2015 ◽  
pp. 972-980
Author(s):  
Robin D'Antona ◽  
Meline Kevorkian
Keyword(s):  
Child Development ◽  
Child Health ◽  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Potential Risk ◽  
University Of Illinois ◽  
Mobile Phone Use ◽  
Current Information ◽  
Emerging Issues ◽  
Health And Development ◽  
The University

Cyberbullying and sexting have made headlines and caused concern over their legality and potential risk to safety. In this article, the authors discuss cyberbullying and sexting behavior and examine the association with mobile phone use. Using research from leading researchers in the field, they provide information about the prevalence of cyberbullying and sexting, the mobile phone as an avenue for these behaviors, and solutions to prevent victimization. In conclusion, the authors recommend that awareness, guidelines, and monitoring are preventative rather than reactive. In order to develop this chapter, the authors used evidence from leading researchers in the fields of bullying and cyberbullying prevention. These researchers include Dorothy Espelage, PhD., Professor of Child Development in the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Dr. Tonja Nansel, senior investigator at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver Institute of Child Health and Development. In addition, they have included the most current information from scholarly articles written by researchers who diligently examine the emerging issues around sexting and cyberbullying. This includes the work of Bastiaensens, S., Vandebosch, H., Poels, K., Van Cleemput, K., DeSmet, A. and Bourdeaudhij, I.D.

Mobility and the mobile: A study of adolescent migrants and their use of the mobile phone

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 104-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karmele Mendoza Pérez ◽  
Marta Morgade Salgado
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Young People ◽  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Country Of Origin ◽  
Ethnographic Methodology ◽  
Unaccompanied Foreign Minors ◽  
Migrant Adolescents

In this article, we explore the day-to-day importance of digital media, specifically the use of mobile phones in the lives of migrant minors—also known as unaccompanied foreign minors—in juvenile residential centres. For this study, we employed a general ethnographic methodology and, in particular, a workshop based on different artistic techniques that encouraged the young people involved to become active participants, committed from the start in the generation of the material to be used for the analysis of their daily practices. This approach emerged from the recognition of the importance for these young people to feel included and connected. Migrant adolescents take refuge in their mobile devices to participate in the youth microculture, both locally and globally. In addition, they are able to access different social networks that allow them to play out the personas they wish to adopt. Finally, we recognise the importance of digital media in allowing them to maintain close and affective relationships with their relatives, fellow citizens, and communities in their country of origin.

scholarly journals Inteligencia emocional y rendimiento académico en alumnos de educación secundaria obligatoria

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miguel Ángel Broc Cavero
Keyword(s):  
Prediction Equation ◽  
Variable Number ◽  
Final Conclusion ◽  
Ex Post ◽  
Ex Post Facto ◽  
Emotional Quotient Inventory ◽  
Las Mujeres ◽  
High Level ◽  
Interpersonal Factor ◽  
The University

RESUMENEste trabajo pretendió utilizar el Inventario de Cociente Emocional en su versión para adolescentes EQ-i:YV, de Bar-On adaptado a la población española por investigadores de la universidad de Murcia en 2012, a una muestra de 345 alumnos de educación secundaria obligatoria (ESO) en un centro público de Zaragoza, con un alto nivel de inmigración y diversidad. Mediante un diseño correlacional “ex post facto”, se analizó la influencia que variables independientes ejercían sobre la variable dependiente número de suspensos. Igualmente se llevaron a cabo análisis de varianza y otros análisis mediante el programa SPSS versión 22 y Lisrel 8.51, encontrando que los datos son similares a los obtenidos en el trabajo original, que los varones aventajan a las mujeres en el factor estado de ánimo y adaptabilidad y que éstas aventajan a aquellos en el factor interpersonal y en rendimiento académico. Los análisis de regresión muestran que solamente los factores Interpersonal y Manejo del estrés entran en la ecuación de predicción, con correlaciones positivas pero bajas que explican poca cantidad de varianza, y que casi no hay diferencias en los factores en los cuatro cursos de la etapa, sugiriéndose una conceptualización más cercana a la teoría de los rasgos, o una interpretación más laxa en cuanto al desarrollo emocional se refiere. La conclusión final es que este constructo tal vez haya sido algo sobredimensionado y no tenga tanta relevancia en el rendimiento académico como han pretendido algunos autores.ABSTRACTThis work aimed to use the Bar-On EQ-i:YV Emotional Quotient Inventory: Young Versión, adapted to the Spanish population by researchers of the University of Murcia in 2012, to a sample of 345 students of Compulsory Secondary Education (CSE) in a public center in Zaragoza, with a high level of immigration and diversity. Through an "ex post facto" correlation design, we analyzed the influence that independent variables exerted on the dependent variable number of suspended subjects. Likewise, variance analysis, among others were carried out using the SPSS version 22 and Lisrel 8.51 program, finding that the data are similar to those obtained in the original study, that men outperform women in the factor of mood and adaptability, and that these outweigh those in the interpersonal factor and in academic achievement. Regression analysis show that only the Interpersonal and Stress Management factors enter into the prediction equation, with positive but low correlations that explain little amount of variance, and that there are almost no differences in the factors in the four courses of the this educational stage, suggesting a conceptualization closer to the theory of traits, or a more lax interpretation in terms of emotional development. The final conclusion is that this construct may have been somewhat oversized and does not have as much relevance in academic performance as some authors have claimed.

scholarly journals Crystallography on mobile phones

2006 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 595-597 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivan Orlov ◽  
Nicolas Schoeni ◽  
Gervais Chapuis
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Teaching Science ◽  
Mobile Phone Application ◽  
Custom Made ◽  
Widespread Dissemination

The new possibilities offered by mobile phones combined with their widespread dissemination among young people open new paradigms for teaching science. The wide adoption of the Java environment for mobile devices gives the opportunity to develop custom-made applications for educational purposes. The first mobile phone application for crystallography training,Escher Mobile, is now available at http://escher.epfl.ch/mobile/.

scholarly journals The Effect of Work Expectations and Family Environment on Interest in Continuing Postgraduate Studies (S2) in Economics Education Students

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (9) ◽  
pp. 160
Author(s):  
Suharmi Suharmi ◽  
Hilyati Milla ◽  
Bahrin Bahrin
Keyword(s):  
Family Environment ◽  
Postgraduate Education ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Economic Education ◽  
Economics Education ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Ex Post ◽  
Ex Post Facto ◽  
Postgraduate Studies ◽  
The University

Someone who continues his studies is something that needs to be done in achieving his goals. A person in continuing his studies at a higher level is influenced by various factors including work expectations and the environment. Therefore, the purpose of this research is to determine the effect of work expectations and family environment on the interest in continuing postgraduate education (S2) in economic education students. The methodology of this research is ex-post facto with a quantitative approach. Respondents in this research were students of economic education at the University of Muhammadiyah Bengkulu (UMB) class of 2016 which amounted to 60 students who were taken with a total sampling technique. Methods of data analysis using multiple regression. The results of the research are as follows: 1). Work expectations have a positive and significant effect on interest in continuing postgraduate education (S2), 2). Family environment has a positive and significant effect on interest in continuing postgraduate education (S2), and 3). Work expectations and family environment together affect the interest in continuing postgraduate education (S2) by 30.60% and 69.40% influenced by variables outside this research.

scholarly journals Teens’ Motivations to Spread Fake News on WhatsApp

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 205630512094287
Author(s):  
Paula Herrero-Diz ◽  
Jesús Conde-Jiménez ◽  
Salvador Reyes de Cózar
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
Instant Messaging ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Address Book ◽  
Informative Content

Younger people are exposed to misinformation that circulates rapidly on their mobile devices through instant messaging applications such as WhatsApp. Under the guise of news, an attractive format and outrage discourse, fake news appeal to their emotions by inviting them to distribute them impulsively. All of this is supported by a device—the mobile phone—in which the action of sharing is a matter of trust. Therefore, they are less likely to check a piece of content before resending it if it comes from a contact in their personal address book. To understand young people’s habits when receiving informative content through WhatsApp and the reasons why they choose to share it or not, this study designed a “Questionnaire on Student Habits for Sharing Fake News on the Mobile” (CHECK-M), to measure young teenagers’ exposure to “fake news” and their behavior. Empirical data, from a sample of 480 adolescents, confirmed that (1) they are more likely to share content if it connects with their interests, regardless of its truthfulness, that (2) trust affects the credibility of information, and that (3) the appearance of newsworthy information ensures that, regardless of the nature of the content, this information is more likely to be shared among young people.

scholarly journals Perceptual Styles and Cannabis Consumption Prediction in Young People

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 288
Author(s):  
Carlos Herruzo ◽  
María J. Pino ◽  
Valentina Lucena ◽  
Javier Herruzo
Keyword(s):  
Risk Perception ◽  
Young People ◽  
Protective Factor ◽  
Cannabis Use ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Ex Post ◽  
Ex Post Facto ◽  
Cannabis Consumption ◽  
Perceptual Styles ◽  
Ex Post Facto Study

Given that risk perception has been found to be both a vulnerability and a protective factor with respect to consumption, the objectives of this study were to find out whether there exist specific patterns of risk perception associated with cannabis use and, if so, how they relate to cannabis consumption and to the sources of information on drugs accessed by young people. An ex post facto study was carried out with 1851 young Andalusians aged 18 to 29, using an adaptation of the Andalusian Government “Andalusian Population versus Drugs” survey. For the first objective, a cluster analysis was carried out in which three perceptual style groups were formed: “Strict”, “Permissive-Awareness” and “Lax”. Cannabis use in the “lax” group was found to be 14.31 times more frequent than in the “strict” group and 2.75 times more frequent than in the “permissive-awareness” group. A logistic regression analysis was also performed, which correctly predicted 80.4% of users and non-consumers. Correlation was found between perceptual styles and the sources of information used about drugs. This study identified three different risk perception styles that heavily correlated to cannabis consumption and to the type of sources young Andalusians use to obtain information about drugs, suggesting the need for a change in preventive policy.

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