Habit of Reading Newspapers among University Students (A Case Study of Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan)

Abstract

The trend of newspaper reading among the university students was decreasing day by day. This study's goal was to determine the number of student’s, both male and female, read newspaper among the Bahauddin Zakariya University students and its associated factors, which effect this habit of reading. The population based on all the students of Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan. The primary data collected from different departments by using the non-probability convenient sampling technique by personal investigation methods from 320 students. The questionnaire comprising twenty-eight questions. Chi-square test of significance applied to find differences and to check the association between the attributes. Standardized residual analysis applied to check the measure of how significant the cells were to the chi-square value. P-value considered significant if it was ≤0.05. The data examined using the statistical package for social sciences (SPSS) version 23.