scholarly journals The Perception of Premarital Sex Among Students in a Religious Moral Based University

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 1687-1714
Author(s):  
Hansel Sze Yong Teo ◽  
Amanda Simon

Introduction: Previous studies have shown that premarital sex is prevalent among youth in schools and universities. Most institutions use methods such as rules, seminars, or sex prevention programs to help prevent students from engaging in premarital sex. Not many institutions have used religious moral development activities to prevent premarital sex among young people. The purpose of the study was to investigate the relationship between religious moral development on perception of premarital sex among students in a religious based university in Thailand, and to also explore the factors that shape students’ perceptions of premarital sex. Methods: The research design of this study was quantitative, non-experimental and descriptive, using the survey method of data collection. Permission was granted from the university research committee for distribution of the survey through the university intranet, and the data was analyzed using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS). The total number of participants was 103 undergraduate students from the international programme. Results: The findings of the study suggest that most university students are against sex before marriage. Moral development activities taught them not to have premarital sex. Participants responses showed that the factor that most impacted perceptions of premarital sex was the internet. The findings also suggested that movie/television viewing, is an important factor that shapes perceptions of premarital sex. The result show that moral development activities and perceptions of premarital sex are related, however it was a weak correlation (r=.03). Moral development activities may have a small influence on students’ perceptions of premarital sex. Discussion: There is a need for improvement of moral development activities such as the implementation of more discussions on premarital sex to help students understand the value of sex. Future research in this area could use qualitative approaches to examine the factors that impact perceptions of premarital sex, and regression analysis to investigate the influence of moral development on perceptions of premarital sex.

Author(s):  
Nurudeen Aderibigbe ◽  
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Dennis N Ocholla ◽  

This study examined the ethical behaviour of undergraduate students in relation to cyber technology at the University of Zululand (UNIZULU), South Africa, and the Federal University of Agriculture in Abeokuta (FUNAAB), Nigeria. We adopted the pragmatic research paradigm that combines both quantitative and qualitative research methods through the survey method. The sample for the study was drawn from undergraduate students in two purposively selected universities in South Africa and Nigeria. Overall, 450 undergraduate students were invited to participate in the survey; 380 respondents completed and returned the questionnaire, resulting in a response rate of 84.4%. 14 of the expected 16 members of staff of both Information & Communication Technology Resource Centre ICTREC and Information Technology Section ITS were interviewed, resulting in a response rate of 88%. A combination of quantitative and qualitative approaches was used for data analysis. Most of the respondents from the sampled universities reported that they were aware of what constitutes unethical cyber behaviour. Further, the participants (98; 52.1%) revealed that they had never received ethical orientation/training in the university on cyber behaviour, cyber space, or cyber technology. Challenges facing the students is reported. The study recommends that universities should sustain orientation/training programmes on cyber ethics and cyber security awareness at the start of each academic year, especially for newly enrolled students so that they can act responsibly when using the university’s cyberspace. The results of this study may spark further discussions and research on cyber technology access and use in contemporary society.


2012 ◽  
Vol 21 (spe) ◽  
pp. 68-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carole Mitchell ◽  
Laura Simich ◽  
Carol Strike ◽  
Bruna Brands ◽  
Norman Giesbrecht ◽  
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Simultaneous polydrug use in undergraduate students was studied in one university in Kingston, Jamaica. The study was a cross-sectional, and used a survey method of data collection. We examined protective and risk factors associated with simultaneous polydrug use in a sample of 295 undergraduate students from the health and medical science departments in the university. Our results suggest that continued residence with family, family support, and students' emotional well-being are protective factors. On the other hand, ease of access of substance and limited emotional support may be considered risk factors. Our findings may inform preventive programs, though further research is required.


Author(s):  
Abdulmohsin Suliman Alkhunzain

<p>Smartphones have become an import part of the human life from the beginning of the 21<sup>st</sup> century. Most of the people of different ages are using most modern smartphones. The present study is an attempt to examine the university students’ smartphone addiction and their perception on its usefulness for the academic purposes. The study employed quantitative method to measure the smartphones addiction. Two questionnaires were used to gather the data for the present attempt. One questionnaire was used to gather the data for smartphone addition and the second questionnaire was use to attain learners perception on the smartphone addiction for the learning purposes. The participants of the present attempt were (N=174) undergraduate students of a public university. The finding of the study displayed that university students spend more than 8 hours in a day on their smartphones. Findings also indicate that participants are aware of the positive aspects of smartphones. The study also recommends suggestion on the future research.</p>


2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 651-671
Author(s):  
Norah Al-Qahtania ◽  
Wafa Abdullah Al-Salem

  This study aims to identify the positive and negative repercussions of the novel Coronavirus crisis on students’ remote learning in Saudi universities. A descriptive survey method is carried out using a questionnaire and distributed to a cluster sample of 651 undergraduate students. Results reveal the most prominent positive repercussions, which are that the university cares about the learners' safety and health health and places them at the highest priority, review of recorded lectures and investing time. Results also reveal the most prominent negative repercussions, which are students’ concern about their academic conditions, reduced access to teaching and research facilities and laboratories, and large assignments. Statistically significant differences are also found in favour of males, health disciplines, and King Faisal University and University of Hail.   Keywords: Repercussions,covid-19, student,remote learning,Saudi universities


2021 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arriane Pirhalla ◽  
Crystal Marull

With the rise of online education surrounding the current global situation, facilitating engaging, communicative and interesting online courses and research has become increasingly more important. This study surveyed various undergraduate students at the University of Florida (n=114), gathering perspectives on their awareness of, interest in and opinions on online undergraduate research and courses. This study found that a majority of students (74.58%, n=88) surveyed were not aware of online research programs like the University Scholars Program, despite majority (71.67%, n=81) indicating they were at least moderately interested in the program. Students also overwhelmingly rated research as being  very or extremely important, especially for post-graduate work or school. This paper discusses the implications of relationships between these responses, and touches on suggested future research.


2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 234-245
Author(s):  
Fakomogbon Micheal Ayodele ◽  
Onojah Amos Ochayi ◽  
Aribisala Ruth Moyosoluwa ◽  
Onojah Adenike Aderogba

E-learning is any technologically mediated learning using computers whether from a distance or in face-to-face classroom setting (computer -assisted learning). But some schools do not even have access to the available technologies needed to explore the e-learning. The main purpose of this research was to investigate undergraduates’ ingress to e-Learning resources for learning in the University of Ilorin, Nigeria. Specifically, the study determined how accessible e-learning resources are to Undergraduate student of the University and examined the influence of gender on the access to the e-learning resources. This research was a descriptive research of the survey method and the respondents comprised of 320 undergraduates’ students studying at the University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria. The findings established that e-mail and internet facilities are more accessible than virtual classroom and there was no significant difference between male and female undergraduate students’ ingress to e-learning. It was however recommended that Universities should improve on the infrastructural facilities to make e-learning resources more accessible to all her students.


2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 86-100
Author(s):  
Janice Aurora B. Tirol – Namoc ◽  
Gloria T. Casabal

“Adolescence” is a transition period where individuals experience various physiological changes, such as pubertal changes, brain structure changes, and sexual interest. The research intended to ascertain the association between the religious index and risky sexual behaviors among adolescents of the University of Bohol in School Year 2018-2019. The study utilized the descriptive normative survey method. There were 378 respondents included in this study within the age range of 18-21, taking a 95% confidence interval with 4.88 degrees of error. The research study used a tool modified from the national survey on the University of the Philippines Population Institute’s (U.P.P.I.) research on Young Adult Fertility Study (Y.A.F.S.). The researchers ensured the utmost confidentiality of the data. The overall religious index of the respondents is relatively high (3.06). Results revealed that the age and sex of the respondents are directly proportional to premarital sex. Premarital sex also increases with age. In particular, results showed an inverse association between the sex of the respondents and premarital sex, sex of the respondents and unprotected sex, sex of the respondents, and multiple sexual partnerships. It also showed that the overall religiosity index was not significantly correlated with premarital sex, unprotected sex, multiple sex partners. There is a need to establish a concrete connection between religious beliefs and religious practices in coming up with the respondents’ sound decisions on their sexual behaviors. Still, sound decision-making needs to be anchored on firmed-up distillation between religious beliefs and religious practices.


2001 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 346-351 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric A. Storch ◽  
Andrea R. Kolsky ◽  
Susan M. Silvestri ◽  
Jason B. Storch

This study was a pilot examination of the religiousness of student athletes as compared to nonathletes. Participants were 248 undergraduate students (84 athletes) at the University of Florida who were enrolled in randomly chosen courses within the Department of Counselor Education. To assess the organizational, nonorganizational, and intrinsic dimensions of religion, the Duke Religion Index was used. Findings indicate that male and female athletes reported higher degrees of organizational, nonorganizational, and intrinsic religiousness than male nonathletes. Implications of these Findings on future research and applied sport practice are discussed.


2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 239-249
Author(s):  
Asma Butt

PurposeThis study aimed to find out the web content accessed by university students and to compare the level of interaction with real-life friends and online friends.Design/methodology/approachIn this study, the quantitative research design used, and the researcher collected data through the survey method. The population comprises all undergraduate students at the University of the Punjab, Lahore. The sample of 320 students, age ranges from 18 to 22 years from eight selected departments, collected through a simple random sampling technique and after extraction 284 questionnaires evaluated by using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS).FindingsThe findings of the study showed that students preferred activities on the Internet is to access social networking sites. Additionally, the mobile phone is the most commonly used device among university students to access the Internet. Furthermore, students mostly used Facebook to keep in touch with their old friends and talk on different topics more easily with their online friends as compared to real-life friends. The study also shows that the results of both the hypothesis are significant; therefore, no difference exists regarding time spent on the Internet in real-life friendship patterns and online friendship patterns.Originality/valueThe research was used to find out the difference between the online friendship and real-life friendship patterns of the two groups who use the Internet for less time and who spend more time on the Internet among the university students.


2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. p1
Author(s):  
Dr. Mahvish Fatima Kashif ◽  
Dr. Faiza Shaheen ◽  
Maryam Tahir

The objective of the study was to find out relationship between perceived parenting styles of mothers and emotional intelligence among undergraduate students. Correlational research was selected as research design. The population of the study was undergraduate students of education department of public and private universities of Lahore. The total population was 1760. Proportionate stratified random sampling technique was used to select the sample. The strata were formed on the basis of nature of the university. The total number of students selected was 528. The instrument consisted of three parts; first part consisted of demographic information (gender, nature of institution, education of mother and working status of mother). The second part consisted of Parenting Authority Questionnaire (PAQ), designed by Buri (1991) which was used to measure parenting styles and the third part consisted of Emotional Intelligence questionnaire (EI) by Schutte (1998) which was used to measure emotional intelligence. Data was collected individually from participants through questionnaires by survey method. Both inferential and descriptive statistics were applied to analyze the data. Multiple regression analysis was used to determine the relationship between the variables and Independent sample t-test was used to determine the difference between the demographic variables.


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