The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship with Internet addiction, self-control, and scholastic achievement in elementary school students. The followings are some questions for researching which is established in order to carry out the ...
The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship with Internet addiction, self-control, and scholastic achievement in elementary school students. The followings are some questions for researching which is established in order to carry out the purpose of this research.
First, is there any difference in Internet addiction, self-control, and scholastic achievement according to the children's gender?
Second, is there any difference in Internet addiction, self-control, and scholastic achievement according to the children's school grade?
Third, is there any interrelationship with Internet addiction, self-control, and scholastic achievement?
The subjects of this study are 434 students who were sampled among the 4th, 5th, and 6th grade students of H elementary school located in Donggu, Daejeon Metropolitan City. Three tools for this study are used. In order to survey the degree of the Internet addiction, the K-checklist, which is developed by Kim, Chungtack, Park, Joongkyu, Kim, Dongil, and Lee, Soojin(2003) is used. In order to survey the self-control, test revised by Nam, Hyunmi(1999) is used. In order to measure the scholastic achievement, the final-term scholastic achievement test assessed by Daejeon Metropolitan Office of Education in 2007 is used.
The result of this research is as follows.
First, according to the students' gender, the level of the Internet addiction was different. Male students were higher than that of female students in the Internet addiction, whereas female students in the scholastic achievement were higher. As for the self-control, it wasn't shown that there is a meaningful relationship according to the students' gender.
Second, it was shown that there is some meaningful difference in the Internet addiction according to the children's school grade. The 4th grade students of elementary school showed the highest level of the self-control while the 6th grade students are the lowest one.
Third, the degree of the Internet addiction has no relations with the self-control and the scholastic achievement. In addition, the self-control has no relations with all the subordinate elements of the Internet addiction, and the scholastic achievement also has no relations with the rest of all the subordinate elements excluding the disturbance of reality testing.
In conclusion, this study shows that students' self-control has meaningful relations with scholastic achievement although students are highly addicted to Internet. And the ability of students' self-control has an effect on scholastic achievement. This research suggested that the development of students' higher self-control can protect the decline of academic ability caused by Internet addiction.