Attitude Toward the Internet Usage Among Undergraduate Students in Ubonratchathani

Abstract

The research topic of attitude toward the internet usage among undergraduate students in Ubonratchathani has the following objectives (1) to study the attitude toward the internet

usage among undergraduate students and (2) to compare their attitudes on different personal

characteristics of undergraduate students, namely gender, age groups, classes of study, internet

usage behavior, expenses on internet usage. The sample consisted of 392 students from Yamane tabulation (1973) and they were sampled purposely among universities in Ubonratchathani. They were asked to answer the questionnaire, of which the reliability test yielded the Cronbach’s Alpha coefficient of 0.93 The quantitative study used the frequency, the percentage, the arithmetic mean, the standard deviation for analysis, t-test and One-way ANOVA statistics for hypothesis testing. The survey results revealed that 57.7% of respondents were female, the age group of 22-23 years accounted for 31.4%, of those surveyed 32.9% were in junior year. Time spent on internet was between 6 pm. to midnight accounted for 38.5% and 40.6% of them spent on buying internet time were below 399 bht. per month. The overall average mean value of attitude toward the internet usage among undergraduate students was at moderate level 3.40 (SD. 0.41). The t-test score of .649 was statistical insignificant for gender differences regarding attitude toward internet usage. The One - Way ANOVA statistical test of having independent variables, namely gender, age groups, classes of study, internet usage behavior, expenses on buying internet time, regress on dependent variable, attitude toward the internet usage, the statistical tests were insignificant at the level of 0.05.