The study sought to examine the effects of cognitive and behavioural therapies on student’s internet surfing behaviour and text messaging behaviour at the University of Cape Coast. The sample comprised 60 undergraduate regular students from three Colleges in the University of Cape Coast (College of Health and Allied Sciences, College of Humanities and Legal studies, and College of Education studies) in the Central Region of Ghana. The study was conducted using a quasi-experimental pre-test, post-test (non-equivalent) control group design. Three groups made up of two experimental groups and a control group were involved in the study. Using an adapted form of Choliz (2012) Test of Mobile Phone Dependence, the data for the study was gathered. The instrument which was in the form of a structured questionnaire was on a 5-point Likert-type scale, comprising twenty-three items. One-way Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA) at the alpha level of .05 was used to test the hypotheses. The result was that Cognitive and behavioural therapies had positive effects on Students’ Internet Surfing Behaviour and Students’ Text Messaging Behaviour. Students have the ability and capacity to succeed in readjusting and controlling their mobile phone addictive behaviours using cognitive and behavioural strategies. It was recommended that counsellors should be encouraged to use either of the therapies to reduce mobile phone addictive behaviours of students.
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Internet Surfing Behaviour, Mobile Phone Addictive Behaviour, Text Messaging Behaviour, Cognitive and Behavioural Therapies
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