Title :
Students and Mobile Phone
Author :
Tsakiridou, Eleni ; Kyridis, Argyris ; Fachantidis, Nikolaos ; Zagos, Christos
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Primary Educ., Univ. of Western Macedonia, Fiorina, Greece
Abstract :
The continuing and rapid evolution of mobile telephony seems to effect contemporary life and especially students life. In our research we investigate Greek high school students´ beliefs and attitudes about mobile telephony and their stance on mobile phone usage. A total of 194 students of high school, participated in the study (99 boys and 95 girls). A closed form questionnaire with 16 sentences has been given. The data that has been collected analyzed using Factor Analysis method. In this way the data grouped according to their interrelation, in order to project special categories and fully describe students´ attitudes. Based on the Factor Analysis five independent axes arise, which interpret the 69% of the total sample. The results show that although students consider mobile phone as a necessity, they treat it as a life style gadget.
Keywords :
educational institutions; mobile handsets; telephony; Greek high school; factor analysis method; mobile phone; mobile telephony; student life; Mobile telephony; greek students; high school;
Conference_Titel :
Intelligent Networking and Collaborative Systems (INCOS), 2010 2nd International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Thessaloniki
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8828-5
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4278-2
DOI :
10.1109/INCOS.2010.82
