Materials
The paper and pencil survey was a self-administered questionnaire that could be completed in less than 10 minutes. After signing the consent form. the participants were given a self-administered paper and pencil survey. Borrowing questions from the likert scale survey employed by Tessa Jones (2014) to examine the attitudes of college students regarding cell phone habits, the questionnaire consisted of ten statements. The 4-point response format:
"strongly agree. agree. disagree. and strongly disagree" was used. (See Appendix A for example of survey questions.) The remaining three questions. also included in Appendix A. related to the participants demographics.
Naturalistic field observations at two locations on the campus of the University …show more content…
The remaining survey volunteers, also students from The University of Texas at Dallas, were not offered an incentive lor their participation in the research.
The field observations were conducted on over 100 students from two locations of highly populated areas on the campus of The University of Texas at Dallas. The first observation took place outside of the Eugene McDermott library between 5:00-5:30 p.m. on October 24, 2016.
Students were observed entering and exiting the library. sitting on park benches and the campus grounds near the pay-by-space parking lot in front of the library. The second field observation occurred two days later inside of The University of Texas at Dallas ' courtyard. near Cecil (ireen llall. between 5:30-6:00 p.m. Students were observed walking across the courtyard. sitting on the campus grounds. at picnic tables. and benches. Both observations were naturalistic. alway 's unobtrusive. The researcher was able to observe the students behavior in their …show more content…
the survey participants consisted of nine female and four male students enrolled at The
University of Texas at Dallas: an accurate representation of the sample included in the field observations. Due to the previous research of Roberts et al. (2014) which resulted in an association between gender and cell phone usc. the researcher was surprised by the results of the informal survey. It was speculated that female college students would report higher Volumes of talking and texting on cellphones than the male students. However, the survey results overwhelmingly revealed no significant difference in gender and cell phone behaviors among college students.
Compared to findings of similar studies in which the observational method of research was employed to collect data (Banjo. Ilu, and Sundar. 2008: Jones. 2014: Drago. 2015). Banjo et al. (2008) contended that cell phone users use the cell phone in public as a form of exclusion. thereby hindering social interactions with proximate others. Jones 's (2014) observational research of college students resulted in a majority of the sample observed not having a cell phone visible: a similar result of the present study 's observational research
The paper and pencil survey was a self-administered questionnaire that could be completed in less than 10 minutes. After signing the consent form. the participants were given a self-administered paper and pencil survey. Borrowing questions from the likert scale survey employed by Tessa Jones (2014) to examine the attitudes of college students regarding cell phone habits, the questionnaire consisted of ten statements. The 4-point response format:
"strongly agree. agree. disagree. and strongly disagree" was used. (See Appendix A for example of survey questions.) The remaining three questions. also included in Appendix A. related to the participants demographics.
Naturalistic field observations at two locations on the campus of the University …show more content…
The remaining survey volunteers, also students from The University of Texas at Dallas, were not offered an incentive lor their participation in the research.
The field observations were conducted on over 100 students from two locations of highly populated areas on the campus of The University of Texas at Dallas. The first observation took place outside of the Eugene McDermott library between 5:00-5:30 p.m. on October 24, 2016.
Students were observed entering and exiting the library. sitting on park benches and the campus grounds near the pay-by-space parking lot in front of the library. The second field observation occurred two days later inside of The University of Texas at Dallas ' courtyard. near Cecil (ireen llall. between 5:30-6:00 p.m. Students were observed walking across the courtyard. sitting on the campus grounds. at picnic tables. and benches. Both observations were naturalistic. alway 's unobtrusive. The researcher was able to observe the students behavior in their …show more content…
the survey participants consisted of nine female and four male students enrolled at The
University of Texas at Dallas: an accurate representation of the sample included in the field observations. Due to the previous research of Roberts et al. (2014) which resulted in an association between gender and cell phone usc. the researcher was surprised by the results of the informal survey. It was speculated that female college students would report higher Volumes of talking and texting on cellphones than the male students. However, the survey results overwhelmingly revealed no significant difference in gender and cell phone behaviors among college students.
Compared to findings of similar studies in which the observational method of research was employed to collect data (Banjo. Ilu, and Sundar. 2008: Jones. 2014: Drago. 2015). Banjo et al. (2008) contended that cell phone users use the cell phone in public as a form of exclusion. thereby hindering social interactions with proximate others. Jones 's (2014) observational research of college students resulted in a majority of the sample observed not having a cell phone visible: a similar result of the present study 's observational research