Mobile phone ownership and usage among students at Jordanian Universities

Abstract EN

The objective of this study is to identify the ownership and usage of mobile phones among university students in Jordan.

It also aims at revealing any significant statistical differences among students’ ownership and usage, which may be attributed to gender, age, type of university, type of college and level of academic program.

The sample of the study consisted of (993) students chosen randomly from nine public and private universities in Jordan in 2006 / 2007.

The instrument was a questionnaire developed by the researcher.

Results show that 87.2% of the respondents own mobile phones.

Significant differences are revealed among respondents ownership (%=0.05) as attributed to the following variables: gender, in favor of males ; age, in favor of (24-26) and (27+) age brackets, the type of the college, in favor of colleges of sciences; and the level of the academic program in favor of the masters level.

Significant differences are also revealed among the respondents’ personal and social usages (%=0.05) as attributed to the following variables: gender, in favor of males; age, in favor of (18-20) and (27+) age brackets, and type of university, in favor of public universities.

Significant differences are also demonstrated among students educational usage as attributed to gender, in favor of males; age in favor of (18-20) and (23-21) age brackets ; type of university, in favor of the public universities, and the type of college in favor of Colleges of Science