GUIDE International Workshop 2010

New Challenges for E-learning in cultural, scientific and socio-economic development

Comunicação "Loneliness levels influence the use of the new tecnologies in 1st year Colege Students?"

Os psicólogos do Serviço de Consulta Psicológica da Universidade da Madeira apresentaram a comunicação "Loneliness levels influence the use of the new tecnologies in 1st year college students?"  no GUIDE International Workshop 2010 "New Challenges for E-learning in cultural, scientific and socio-economic development", organizado pela Università degli Studi "Guglielmo Marconi", Roma (Itália), que decorreu nos dias 18 e 19 de Março de 2010.

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Resumo da Comunicação 

To achieve this purpose, we included 170 first-year students who are enrolled in several courses taught at Madeira University, in Portugal. The results indicate that most of students use the Internet on daily basis routine not only for academic purposes but also for social activities. The outcomes also show that the majority of the participants seemed to show preference for more traditional learning methods, such as individual preparation based on manuals, attending the class and clarifying questions with the teacher instead of on-line learning methods.  However, it should be noted that students seemed to be receptive to online learning methods. Furthermore, unlike most studies, ours findings reveal that high levels of loneliness were not associated with excessive of use Internet by college students. The findings also suggest that the college students who have high levels of loneliness were more likely to be more open and sincere on online relationships than in face-to-face approach, to be friendlier, to use the internet to cope with stressful situations and to feel better."