Business research report on Internet and children

INTERNET AND ITS NEGATIVE IMPACT ON CHILDREN

1. Introduction:

The internet is a vast collection of world-wide inter-connected networks. In this new world of

internet connectivity people can share their experiences, ideas, suggestions and problems.

People try to exert influence to get fast responses and reactions from friends and strangers.

The Internet is become very powerful because the Internet contains the biggest resource of

information in the entire world and it enables people to obtain an interactive mechanism to

instantly communicate with each other. Especially the Internet is becoming more and more

important for nearly everybody. Technology is continuously changing. These growing

changes bring health related implications on different aspects of our daily life. There is a big

influence of internet technology on our daily life. Problems arising by excessive

Internet use have been documented worldwide. The Internet has some positive aspects but

there are also negative aspects to the information highway. There is now some concern from

educators and psychologist about the impact of the Internet on the physical, cognitive and

social development of children. The main use of the Internet for teenagers is to play games, to

listen to music, and to meet new people. For youth, the negative aspects of the Internet

include Internet addiction as well as online risks such as exposure to sexually explicit

material and online victimization including harassment or cyber bullying and sexual

solicitation.

The history of the Internet began with the development of electronic computers in the 1950s.

The public was first introduced by the Internet when a message was sent over the ARPANet.

In the late 1960s and early 1970s they were using a variety of protocols but in 1982 the

Internet protocol suite was standardized. Since the mid-1990s, the Internet has had a

revolutionary impact on culture and communication. Day by day data transfer speed is

increasing from 1-Gbit/s to 10-Gbit/s or more. Internet user is growing vary faster. From

2007 to 2012,internet users is increase from 1.15 billion to 2.27 billion. In Asia the

percentage of increasing internet user from 2007 to 2012 is 143%.

After 8 years in 2020 the internet users could beincreased by 3 billion. In the total population

around 21.5% are from age 1 to 17. Among those 21.5%, more than 50% use internet over

computer or Mobil phone. In the UK recent surveys show that among 7-16 year olds 75%

have used the internet. Today's Child Tomorrow’s Future. So Parents should be more careful

about their children when they use internet. Parents can guide their children to use internet

effective ways.

2. Objectives:

2.1: Broad Objective:

This report is prepared primarily to rise parent’s consciousness about negative impact of

internet on children’s daily life.

2.2: Specific objective:

The main objective of the study is negative impact of internet on children’s daily life. To

achieve the main objective, the following specific objectives have been covered in this study:

To improve children’s psychological.

To rise parent’s consciousness about their children.

To improve thinking Capacity of children.

To control children to see Adult content.

To use internet properly.

To control children’s involvedness about Hacking the internet.

To improve children’s life style.

3. Methodology:

The study uses both primary data and secondary data. The report is divided into two parts.

One part is the theoretical part and the other part is the practical part. The information for the

theoretical part of the report was collected from secondary sources like web site, blog and

research paper. For general concept development about the people interviews and discussion

session were taken as primary source. For the practical part of the report general working

experience has been utilized.

The information for the report “Negative impact of internet on children’s daily life’’ the both

were collected from primary and secondary sources. For gathering concept of internet, which

types of age’s people interest to internet surfing thoroughly analyzed. Beside this

observation,discussion with the people of Uttara sector they said their children use internet

more than 5 hours.

3.1 Population Size:

The population size of the research is based on the internet using children’s parents (Male

and Female) of Uttara 4 sector.

3.2 Sample frame:

The sample frame of this study has been considered of the parents of Uttara 4 sector. A total

of 25 respondents have been conducted. The Likert scale questionnaire has been selected.

The population has been defined by convenience sampling who are the responsible of this

area.

4. Scope of the study:

The scope of this paper is to analyze the effects of internet on the children’s life. Internet can

have both positive and negative consequences on internet user of different walks of life at

different times. The need is to understand the true impact of internet so that everybody

gathers benefits that yield a better life. In this paper, an empirical study is conducted to

examine whether the more internet use effect of internet user.The harmful implications of the

internet technology will be discussed.

5. Limitation of the study:

In spite of related parents willingness I could not avail the full concentration as I supposed to

have. The parents are extremely busy with their jobs. On the way of my study, I have faced

the following problems that may be termed as the limitations/shortcoming of the study. The

main limitations of this report are:

Find the reliable source from internet is very hard.

Parents are very busy sometimes.

Sample people did not interest with this topic

We had enough time but it was in exam.

Lack of knowledge.

Communicate with all group members is hard.

At the time of preparing my report I tried to gather every details of process but the

major limitation is lack of adequate information.

6. Literacy review/secondary information:

To prepare this report on “Negative impact of internet on children’s daily life” we use lots of

secondary sources for literacy review. Mainly we use internet, online magazine and research

paper for secondary information. Some research paper we use those are:

M. Y. Abdulkareem , conducted the study Characteristics and information-

seeking behavior of cybercafé users in some Nigerian cities, Data analysis

revealed that about 60% of respondents were male, and nearly 80% were less than

36 years old. Furthermore, 91% of respondents had above 12 years of formal

education, while 30% had no formal training in use of computer. Majority (40%)

had 1 - 4 years of Internet use experience, while students constituted about 40%

ofrespondents. About 40% had no formal source of income. It was further

revealed that 59.4, 13.4, and27.2% of respondents used the Internet for academic,

business, and „social‟ purposes respectively. The paper concludes that cybercafé

users in Nigerian cities are mostly students and academics, and proffered some

useful recommendationsfor improvement.

Rachana, study conducted on Profile Of Internet Users At Cyber Cafes Of

Mumbai , The findings revealed that majority of the respondents were from 20 to

25 years of age, who uses Internet regularly, but the range of age of users varied

from 10 to 50 years. Maximum No. of respondents were of male gender, students

by occupation, used English as the prime language for internet and accessed

Internet at Cyber Café. Expenditure on Internet at Cyber Café doesn’t make much

difference between earning and non-earning respondents. Chatting is the main

purpose for accessing net after e-mail. It is also used for gathering information and

for business purposes.

Thompson S. H. Teoa, Vivien K. G. Limb, Raye Y. C. Lai a, Intrinsic And

Extrinsic Motivation In Internet Usage, the study found that, gender has

significant negative effects while education has significant positive effects on

perceived usefulness. The control variables contributed 3% to the variances in

perceived usefulness. Although age and gender were found to have significant

negative effects on perceived enjoyment in step 1, in the presence of perceived

ease of use in step 2, the results are no longer significant. In fact, the control

variables contributed only 1% to the variation in perceived enjoyment. The control

variables generally contribute about 2 to 4% of the variance in the three Internet

usage dimensions. Gender has significant negative effects on frequency of Internet

usage and diversity of Internet usage, thereby implying that males use the Internet

more frequently and for a greater number of tasks than females. In contrast, age

has significant negative effects on daily Internet usage and diversity of Internet

usage, thereby implying that older Internet users use the Internet for a lesser

number of hours per day and a lesser range of tasks than younger Internet users.

Education level appears to negatively affect daily Internet usage but positively

affect diversity of Internet usage , thereby implying that the higher the education

level of Internet users, the less time is spent on the Internet daily but the diversity

of tasks performed is greater compared to less educated Internet users. One

possible reason is that more educated users may have less time daily to use the

Internet perhaps due to work commitments. Alternatively, moreeducated Internet

users may be more focused on using the Internet to perform specific tasks, thereby

requiring lesser time on the Internet daily. Diverse tasks are performed by more

educated Internet users probably because they are more knowledgeable about the

Internet compared to less educated Internet users. An additional explanation is that

the work of more educated people may be more diversified.

John A. Bargh and Katelyn Y. A. McKenna, The Internet and Social Life, the

study reveals that, People are not passively affected by technology, but actively

shape its use and influence (Fischer 1992, Hughes Hans 2001). The Internet has

unique, even transformational qualities as a communication channel, including

relative anonymity and theability to easily link with others who have similar

interests, values, and beliefs. Research has found that the relative Manisha et al.,

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the relative absence of physical and nonverbal interaction cues (e.g.,

attractiveness) facilitates the formation of relationships on other, deeper bases

such as shared values and beliefs. One’s own desires and goals regarding the

people with whom one interacts has been found to make a dramatic difference in

theassumptions and attributions one makes within that informational void.

Leo Sang-Min Whang,Sujin Lee ,Geunyoung Chang, Internet Over-Users‟

Psychological Profiles:

A Behavior Sampling Analysis On Internet Addiction ,Cyber psychology&

Behavior, What kinds of psychological features do people have when they are

overly involved in usage of the internet? Internet users in Korea were investigated

in terms of internet over-use and related psychological profiles by the level of

internet use. The researcher used Young’s Internet Addiction Scale, and 13,588

users (7,878 males, 5,710 females), out of 20 million from a major portal site in

Korea, participated in this study. Among the sample, 3.5% had been diagnosed as

internet addicts (IA), while 18.4% of them were classified as possible internet

addicts (PA). The Internet Addiction Scale showed a strong relationship with

dysfunctional social behaviors. More IA tried to escape from reality than PA and

Non-addicts (NA). When they got stressed out by work or were just depressed, IA

showed a high tendency to access the internet. The IA group also reported the

highest degree of loneliness, depressed mood, and compulsivity compared to the

other groups. The IA group seemed tobe more vulnerable to interpersonal dangers

than others, showing an unusually close feeling for strangers. Further study is

needed to investigate the direct relationship between psychological well-being and

internet dependency.

Kimberly S. Young ,Internet Addiction: The Emergence Of A New Clinical

Disorder, the investigator reviewed the various report published in journals that

shows ,Internet in much the same way that others became addicted to drugs,

alcohol, or gambling, which resulted in academic failure (Brady, 1996; Murphey,

1996); reduced work performance (Robert Half International, 1996), and even

marital discord and separation (Quittner, 1997). Clinicalresearch on behavioral

addictions has focused on compulsive gambling (Mobilia, 1993), overeating

(Lesieur&Blume, 1993), and compulsive sexual behavior (Goodman, 1993).

Similar addiction models have been applied to technological overuse (Griffiths,

1996), computer dependency (Shotton, 1991), excessive television viewing

(Kubey&Csikszentmihalyi, 1990; McIlwraith etal., 1991), and obsessive video

game playing (Keepers, 1991).

The impact of the internet on children’s daily lives: Physical, Social and

Psychological well-being. – By YEORA KIM, B.A., The Sook-Myung

Women’s University, Korea, 1995

Determining the Effects of Technology on Children. By Kristina E. Hatch.

Child Pornography on the Internet. By Richard Wortley and Stephen

Smallbone.

Some journal we use those are:

Is the Internet hurting children? By Chelsea Clinton and James P. Steyer, Special

to CNN May 21, 2012

7. Hypothesis Development

For this research we made some questionnaires. The questionnaires are as follows:

H1: Long time internet surfing has negative impact on children’s psychological

development.

H2: After alcohol and drugs, internet is the third most addictive thing and that has

negative impact on children’s daily life.

H3: Hacking the internet has become very easy for children these days and that has

negative impact on their daily life.

H4: Adult contest available over the net on children has negative impact on children’s

daily life.

H5: Copy and paste tendency from internet Reduced Thinking Capacity of children.

8. Hypothesis Testing

H1 H2 H3 H4 H5

1= Strongly disagree 0 2 2 0 1

2= Disagree 1 3 6 0 2

3= Neither agree nor disagree 2 5 5 2 5

4= Agree 9 7 7 5 10

5= Strongly Agree 13 8 5 18 7

Total 109 91 82 116 95

Average (X ) 4.36 3.64 3.28 4.64 3.8

Standard Deviation (S) .794 1.26 1.25 .625 1.06

T-TEST VALUE 11.772 4.524 3.12 17.12 6.132

01. H0: Long time internet surfing has no negative impact on children’s psychological

development.

HA: Long time internet surfing has negative impact on children’s psychological

development.

We want to test the null hypothesis

HO: μ = 2.5

HA: μ ≠ 2.5

n = 25

Since the sample size n < 30 so, I may use t - test.

Here X = 4.36

S = 0.794

tcal= (X – μ)/ (s/√n) = 11.772 , with df = n-1

The critical value of t with df 24 at α = 0.05 level of significance is

t0.025, 24 = 2.064 (for two tailed test)

Since tcal>t0.025, 24. So, the null hypothesis isrejected or not accepted. So at 5% level of

significance, it can be said that Long time internet surfing has negative impact on children’s

psychological development.

1; 4%2; 8%

9; 36%

13; 52%

Strongly disagreeDisagreeNeither agree nor disagreeAgreeStrongly agree

02. Ho: After alcohol and drugs, internet is the third most addictive thing and that has no

negative impact on children’s daily life.

HA: After alcohol and drugs, internet is the third most addictive thing and that has

negative impact on children’s daily life.

We want to test the null hypothesis

HO: μ = 2.5

HA: μ ≠ 2.5

n = 25

Since the sample size n < 30 so, I may use t - test.

Here X = 3.64

S = 1.26

tcal= (X – μ)/ (s/√n) = 4.524 , with df = n-1

The critical value of t with df 24 at α = 0.05 level of significance is

t0.025, 24 = 2.064 (for two tailed test)

Since tcal>t0.025, 24. So, the null hypothesis isrejected or not accepted. So at 5% level of

significance,it can be said that After alcohol and drugs, internet is the third most

addictive thing and that has negative impact on children’s daily life.

2; 8%

3; 12%

5; 20%

7; 28%

8; 32%

Strongly disagreeDisagreeNeither agree nor disagreeAgreeStrongly agree

03. Ho: Hacking the internet has become very easy for children these days and that has no

negative impact on their daily life.

HA: Hacking the internet has become very easy for children these days and that has

negative impact on their daily life.

We want to test the null hypothesis

HO: μ = 2.5

HA: μ ≠ 2.5

n = 25

Since the sample size n < 30 so, I may use t - test.

Here X = 3.28

S = 1.25

tcal= (X – μ)/ (s/√n) = 3.12 , with df = n-1

The critical value of t with df 24 at α = 0.05 level of significance is

t0.025, 24 = 2.064 (for two tailed test)

Since tcal>t0.025, 24. So, the null hypothesis isrejected or not accepted. So at 5% level of

significance, it can be said that o hacking the internet has become very easy for children these

days and that has negative impact on their daily life.

2; 8%

6; 24%

5; 20%

7; 28%

5; 20%

Strongly disagreeDisagreeNeither agree nor disagreeAgreeStrongly agree

04. H0: Adult contest available over the net on children has no negative impact on children’s

daily life.

HA:Adult contest available over the net on children has negative impact on children’s

daily life.

We want to test the null hypothesis

HO: μ = 2.5

HA: μ ≠ 2.5

n = 25

Since the sample size n < 30 so, I may use t - test.

Here X = 4.64

S = .625

tcal= (X – μ)/ (s/√n) = 17.12 , with df = n-1

The critical value of t with df 24 at α = 0.05 level of significance is

t0.025, 24 = 2.064 (for two tailed test)

Since tcal>t0.025, 24. So, the null hypothesis isrejected or not accepted. So at 5% level of significance, it

can be said that Adult contest available over the net on children has negative impact on children’s daily

life.

2; 8%

5; 20%

18; 72%

Strongly disagreeDisagreeNeither agree nor disagreeAgreeStrongly agree

05. H0: Copy and paste tendency from internet don’t reduced thinking capacity of children.

HA: Copy and paste tendency from internet reduced thinking capacity of children.

We want to test the null hypothesis

HO: μ = 2.5

HA: μ ≠ 2.5

n = 25

Since the sample size n < 30 so, I may use t - test.

Here X = 3.8

S = 1.06

tcal= (X – μ)/ (s/√n) = 6.132, with df = n-1

The critical value of t with df 24 at α = 0.05 level of significance is

t0.025, 24 = 2.064 (for two tailed test)

Since tcal>t0.025, 24. So, the null hypothesis isrejected or not accepted. So at 5% level of significance, it

can be said that Copy and paste tendency from internet reduced thinking capacity of children.

1; 4%2; 8%

5; 20%

10; 40%

7; 28%

Strongly disagreeDisagreeNeither agree nor disagreeAgreeStrongly agree

9. Finding & Recommendation:

Studying this research it is clear that internet has a negative impact on children’s daily life.

Children’s are always good learner they learn vary fast. Sometimes they take wrong things

vary interestingly over internet. On that time parents can guide them about wright and wrong

about using internet. Some other stapes parents can take to reduce negative impact of internet

on children’s daily life. Those are:

1. Set clear rules for Internet use like time frame to use internet.

2. Insist that your children not share personal information such as their real name,

address, phone number, or passwords with people they meet online.

3. If a site encourages kids to submit their names to personalize the web content, help

your kids create online nicknames that don't give away personal information.

4. Use family safety tools to create appropriate profiles for each family member and to

help filter the Internet.

5. Keep Internet-connected computers in an open area where you can easily supervise

your kids' activities.

6. Know which websites your teens visit, and whom they talk to.

7. Talk to your teenagers about online adult content and pornography, and direct them to

positive sites about health and sexuality.

10. Conclusion:

In this paper, results of a survey on the use of the internet and its effects on the health of

internet user are presented. Most important conclusion is that nobody female user from age

groups 54-59 and 60 and above were came for internet use. The results suggest that, in

general, majority of the users use the internet as informative source. The survey shows that

the ratio of users of entertainment is significant. From the statistical analysis some are

conclusions. Internet usage is independent with reference to demographic variables like age

and gender. The average time spent for internet in male is maximum than female. Maximum

use of internet in male and female for entertainment and communication. Use of internet has

its impact on health of internet user. The physical and mental effects of the health are

associated with the internet use. In this study, 80% people have declined the effect of Internet

on their routine physical activities.

11. Bibliography:

1. The impact of the internet on children’s daily lives: Physical, Social and Psychological

well-being. – By YEORA KIM, B.A., The Sook-Myung Women’s University, Korea, 1995

2. Determining the Effects of Technology on Children. By Kristina E. Hatch.

3. Child Pornography on the Internet. By Richard Wortley and Stephen Smallbone.

4. Is the Internet hurting children? By Chelsea Clinton and James P. Steyer, Special to CNN

May 21, 2012

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Questionnaire development:

We are the 6 group member of “Vision Critical” student of BBA program at IUBAT. We are

working on a research to complete our course Business Research (BUS 301). Our topic is

“Negative impact of internet on children’s daily life”. We need your cooperation to

fulfillment of our report.

Name: ……………………..……………Gender: ………………… Age: …………………

1. Long time internet surfing has negative impact on children’s psychological development.

a) Strongly disagree b) Disagree c) Neither agree nor disagree d) Agree e) Strongly

agree

2. After alcohol and drugs, internet is the third most addictive thing and that has negative

impact on children’s daily life.

a) Strongly disagree b) Disagree c) Neither agree nor disagree d) Agree e) Strongly

agree

3.Hacking the internet has become very easy for children these days and that has negative

impact on their daily life.

a) Strongly disagree b) Disagree c) Neither agree nor disagree d) Agree e) Strongly

agree

4.Adult contest available over the net on children has negative impact on children’s daily life.

a) Strongly disagree b) Disagree c) Neither agree nor disagree d) Agree e) Strongly

agree

5.Copy and paste tendency from internet Reduced Thinking Capacity of children.

a) Strongly disagree b) Disagree c) Neither agree nor disagree d) Agree e) Strongly

agree