Perceived relationship between social media comedies and health conditions of Tai Solarin University of Education students, Ijagun, Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State

Abstract

This study examined the relationship between social media comedies and health conditions of Tai Solarin University of Education (TASUED) students in Ogun State, Nigeria. The study specifically aimed to find out platforms that students employed in accessing social media comedies, frequency of the patronage of social media comedies, and the effects of social media comedies on health conditions of students of Tai Solarin University of Education, Ogun State. Three research questions were raised and one research hypothesis was formulated for the study. The study employed descriptive survey research design, while self-developed questionnaire with reliability coefficient of 0.73 was used to collect data for the study. Volunteering Sampling Technique was used to select 300 undergraduates across the five Colleges in TASUED. The collected data were analysed with the use of simple percentage for research questions and the hypothesis was tested using the chi-square parameter statistics at 0.05 level of significance. Findings revealed that a significant relationship existed between social media comedies and health conditions of students in Tai Solarin University of Education with the calculated value X2c=277.9 which is greater than the table value X2c=9.48. It was recommended among others that social media comedians should always channel the contents of their comedies towards improvement in health of people generally.