Reading Habits in Digital Era during Lockdown among Adolescent

K Packialakshmi,Liji Sara Varghese,K Thenesha

doi:10.17485/ijst/v14i29.608

Abstract

Objectives : To assess the reading habits in digital era during COVID-19 lockdown period and to find the association between reading habits with selected demographic variables. Methods: A descriptive study design was adopted among 300 undergraduate students of Chennai, India using three tools such as Reading Attitude Scale, Self-Report Habit Index Questionnaire and Self-structured questionnaire on Reading Habit in Digital Era. The data was collected by using Google Forms considering the surge in COVID-19. Findings: Most of the samples 132 (44%) were reading newspaper during the lockdown. Many of the samples 114 (38%) were using google classroom for their academic activity, 131 (44%) samples were spending 1 to 3 hours per day for academic work. Half of the samples 151 (50.33%) accepted that reading online increases access to information sources. LinkedIn is famous among UG students. The study concluded that the undergraduate students are interested in digital reading during this lockdown period. The undergraduate students spent most of their time in digital reading, and they are connected with their studies during lockdown. Novelty: Many review articles have been published in online learning and related to education. Due to Covid-19 pandemic, many are forced to be away from direct books and started online reading. Therefore, our current review article highlights reading habits among adolescent during lockdown. Keywords: Key Word: Reading Habits; Reading Attitude; Digital Era; Reading Attitude Scale; SelfReport Habit Index Questionnaire; Lockdown; Adolescent

Highlights

On 11 March 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared an outbreak of Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and repeated the call for countries to act immediately and increase responses to treatment, detection and reduction of transmission to save lives[1].COVID-19 is a pandemic disease that has widely affected the world
2.1 Design of the study This study focuses on reading habits in digital era during lockdown period among adolescent at selected colleges in Chennai
The solitary purpose of the study was to find the change of reading habit among undergraduate students

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Introduction

On 11 March 2020, the WHO declared an outbreak of Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and repeated the call for countries to act immediately and increase responses to treatment, detection and reduction of transmission to save lives[1]. COVID-19 is a pandemic disease that has widely affected the world. It makes a sudden twist in everyone’s life, thereby challenges on different live spheres such as political, scientific, education, religious, economic, public health and so forth in the countries concerned [2]. In the unusual circumstance of the century, it is vital to see how people adapt to the government’s constraints due to the lockdown owing to the pandemic and the effects on their different habits. Learning was the basis for life pleasure and is closely connected to vocational effectiveness[5]

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