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A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF STUDY HABITS BETWEEN RURAL AND URBAN COLLEGE STUDENTS OF KASHMIR VALLEY
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Author(s):
AARIEF HUSSAIN WANI
Vol - 6, Issue- 10 ,
Page(s) : 191 - 198
(2015 )
DOI : https://doi.org/10.32804/IRJMST
Abstract
Study Habits has been the object of empirical and theoretical investigation since that distant past. The main purpose of the study is to investigate the study habits of rural and urban college students of Kashmir valley. For the present study four hundred (400) students are selected by using sample random sampling. The age of the subjects (Students) remained in between 18 to 25 years. A questionnaire was used as a data collection tool. After the collection of data, the data is analyzed by using statistical technique t-test. The results reveal that more rural students (46%) prefer to read in the morning compared to urban students (43%). The data discloses that urban students read in English more than rural students (76% versus 65%) and rural students read in Urdu more than urban students (30% versus 20%). The region wise data also shows that rural students read more than urban for education (48% versus 37.5%) and urban students read more than rural for information (43% versus 37%) and recreation (13% versus 10%). Thus on the basis of results it is concluded that there is a significant difference between rural and urban college going students on different dimensions of study habits.
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