TITLE:
Progressive Retrogression: Science, Technology, Dress Sense and Fashion Taste amongst Polytechnic Students in Ghana
AUTHORS:
Maud Schall, Seth Christopher Yaw Appiah
KEYWORDS:
Polytechnic, Dress, Fashion, Sense, Science and Technology, Ghana
JOURNAL NAME:
Art and Design Review,
Vol.4 No.2,
April
15,
2016
ABSTRACT: Background: The dressing or fashion style of tertiary students has become an important issue of
much concern in this contemporary era amidst technological advancement. This study examines
polytechnic students perspective on the effect science and technology has on dress sense and fashion
taste. Methods: The design was a cross-sectional non-experimental survey of 102 polytechnic
students between the ages of 15 - 29 years with ample knowledge on dress sense. The sample
consisted of 40 male (39.2%) and 62 female (60.8%) students who were enrolled by using a multistage
cluster sampling technique according to departments and academic levels. Results: The
study found that there was an association between science and technology influence and dress
sense (53.7% approval vs. 46.7% disapproval), however this was not statistically significance [x2 = 0.21, p ≤ 0.005]. Again the relationship between the future influence of science and technology on
the dress sense of students was examined using Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient since the
two variables of interest were measured at continuous and categorical levels. The study identified
a very weak negative correlation between the future influence of science and technology on dress
sense and how better students dress will be than now [ρ = -0.2, n = 102, p