Influences of Internet on Social Skill Development of Rural and Urban Adolescents In Coimbatore District
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2015
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Tin; q u a lit^ n d avnilninhiY o§liitertiet facilities ore diff^iihetween urbaiifand rural region&Urhirn a.-hlesce/its enja,
the bencfitSiofhigh'/ur.-i Inti^net facilities which enaUMfhem to clevelcipWarious skills. Adolescent:, residingfn run
areas are disadvanraijco' by lo ^ quality access to Interiipf 'servkes due tp'idek of infrastructure development§So bov
seicmral m d urban adolescent Internetmers have developmentaldifferencesofmriousskills. Themain objective of the present study wg^doftnc
out the influence of Internet on developmental differences of social skills of rural and urban adolescent internet users. The study was conductec ;
on 600adolescents age group o f 7 5- 7 7 residing and swdying in class IX, ^ and XI of two government and two private higher secondary schools in f
rural and urban areas in Coimbatore district Tamilnadu. Simple random sampling technique was used to select the sample of one hundred one f
fifty students from each school. Survey based method and self-constructed questionnaire was used to collect the data. The main result from the t
present study Is that theadolescentsof urban areas were more positively influenced by Internet and developed more social skills than adolescent!
KEYWORDS: Internet uses, adolescents, social skill development, rural and urban of rural areas.