The Educational Impact of E-Mail: Extraverted versus Introverted Students.

Autor/inn/en	Kunderewicz, Larisa; Michener, Stacey; Chambliss, Catherine
Titel	The Educational Impact of E-Mail: Extraverted versus Introverted Students.
Quelle	(2001), (19 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Affective Behavior; College Students; Computer Mediated Communication; Computers; Electronic Mail; Extraversion Introversion; Higher Education; Internet; Interpersonal Relationship; Loneliness; Student Behavior; Student Surveys + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Affective disturbance; Active behaviour; Affektive Störung; Collegestudent; Computerkonferenz; Digitalrechner; Elektronischer Briefkasten; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; Student behaviour; Schülerverhalten; Schülerbefragung
Abstract	College students (N=151) completed surveys assessing the relationship between e-mail use and extraversion. The variables studied included time spent on e-mail; the frequency of e-mail usage; and the purposes e-mail served for each student. The results suggest that extraverts use e-mail as a form of procrastination more than introverts, and that extraverts find e-mail to be more disruptive to their work. Introverts commonly prefer to stay within their own environment, and seem to use e-mail and the Internet primarily as a means of conducting research rather than as a means of participating in a more extensive communication network. Therefore, e-mail is not as distracting for introverted students. Although time spent on e-mail was not found to be significantly different for introverts and extraverts, the results suggest that this may be because introverts use e-mail regularly in completing academic assignments. Extraverts who are seeking greater companionship seem to make use of e-mail as a way of avoiding feeling alone. (Contains 10 references.) (JDM)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2004/1/01