Relationship among Information and Communication Technology Usage, Psychological Well-Being, and Critical Thinking in Chemistry at the Undergraduate Level

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to investigate the relationship among ICT usage, psychological well-being and critical thinking in chemistry at undergraduate level. The study nature was quantitative with correlation research method. The population of the study comprised of all the undergraduate BS chemistry students of the district Lahore and the total sample of the study was 917 male and female from two public and three private universities of district Lahore. Data were collected with the help of three standardized instruments. The instrument for ICT usage adapted to measure by Wickramasinghe and Jayatilleke (2021), for psychological wellbeing adopted by Ryff scale of psychological wellbeing test, and for critical thinking ability adopted by Sumarni et al. (2018). Validity was ensured as per expert opinion and cronbach’s alpha reliability was measured after pilot testing. After data were collected, descriptive and inferential analysis was employed to examine the correlations between variables. The findings show that there is high relationship between ICT usage and critical thinking having r-value 0.611 and relationship between ICT usage and psychological wellbeing moderate positive having r-value 0.345 and relationship between psychological wellbeing and critical thinking is weak positive having r-value 0.235. Thus, it is recommended that ICT based activities should be incorporated in the learning process in such a manner that foster students critical thinking abilities and also had positive impact on their psychological wellness.