Abstract
Internet has been emerged as a most powerful tool for communication and exchange of information all over the world. More recently the web 2.0 tools has provoked a revolution and unlocked a new dimension in the field of communication and technology; this ongoing digital revolution has touched and turned almost every sphere of life of its users whether its physical, social, emotional, moral or ethical. For internet users it is the need of hour to be emotionally mature to manage and monitor their own emotions, to assess the emotional state of others, to deal with the situations accordingly and purposefully. Quite often it has been observed that young internet users get emotionally involved in this virtual world and act in that emotional flow which sometimes results in an emotional trauma leaving its impression for long. The purpose of this study was to investigate about the emotional maturity of internet users and to find out that is there any gender difference in their emotional maturity. Findings revealed that the young internet users are not emotionally mature. Results showed that there is significant gender difference in emotional stability, independence and total emotional maturity of internet users under study. Females who use emailing along with chatting are more emotionally stable in comparison to males.
Highlights
Present era is the era of technology more precisely information and communication technology; Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) has important implications
Result- 1 Emotional maturity of internet users - The analysis of data revealed that the mean value of emotional maturity of students using email along with chatting from at least one year regularly was 131.04 as shown in table (1)
This mean value falls under the high side which indicates that the internet users are not emotionally mature
Summary
Present era is the era of technology more precisely information and communication technology; Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) has important implications. Internet is a big network which connects large number of computers These networks can share the variety of information and can communicate with each other. More recently the web 2.0 tools has provoked a revolution and unlocked a new dimension in the field of communication and technology as the previous passive users are turned into active and creative participants in this techno world. It is helping in the creation of a collaborative and constructive environment and providing a platform for the development of reflective space for today’s digital natives (Srivastava & Dangwal, 2015). This is the first time in history, when peoples are connected via electronic social networks that are unlike anything the world have ever seen.What started out as a hobby for some computer literate people has become a social norm and way of life for people from all over the world (Boyd and Ellison 2007)
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