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Paper Title : Repercussions of Social Networking Websites Usage Concerning Academic Performance of Engineering Students

ISSN : 2395-1303
Year of Publication : 2021
10.29126/23951303/IJET-V7I4P24

Authors: Almas Abrar, Mirza Jahanzaib

         


Abstract
- Social media can be defined as a form of electronic communication through which many people make on-line communication to share information, ideas, personal messages etc. Social media has gained much popularity among people of all arena. Because of its diversified features like audio/video calling, blogging, communication, entertainment, texting and sharing contents all across the globe it is developed as a protruding practice of life especially the young generation. Social media usage is increasing swiftly over the worldly map. Pakistan is also among the list of countries who have growing number of social media users but not much research is done in this field. The subjected research focuses on investigating the relationship between social media usage and academic performance of the students. A questionnaire was formulated and distributed in this regard. Completely filled total 532 responses were received. Results revealed that gender and year of degree has significant relationship with avg time spent. Whereas, type of residence has non-significant relationship with avg time spent on social media. However, academic outcome has positive relationship with average time spent on social media. Moreover, multiple correspondence analysis is done to understand the correspondence of purpose of social media usage with that of avg CGPA. Additionally, at the end two-way clustering is used to made the clusters of the data sets showing similar characteristics.

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Keywords
——Avg CGPA, avg time spent, social media, social media usage, social media websites, social networking sites, two-way ANOVA