The study aims to find out the relation among internet addiction-proneness, stress of life and ego-resilience, by Juveniles. For the object of the study, the first, second and third grader of the junior high and high school located in Daegu were set, ...
The study aims to find out the relation among internet addiction-proneness, stress of life and ego-resilience, by Juveniles. For the object of the study, the first, second and third grader of the junior high and high school located in Daegu were set, collected in 6 schools in total. In the measuring instrument for the study, the Ego-Resilience Standard of Korea-Typed (K- Measure) made by Korea Agency for Digital Opportunity & Promotion (2003) was used. The measure of stress of life used the questionnaire by Kim Kyo heon and Jeon Kyum gu (1993). In this study, the mental stress of stress types was focused on and furthermore, the stress of life in the mental stress was concentrated more. The study sub-class ified it into the 4 sections for an interpersonal relationship and the 4 sections for an urgent problem, composed of 74 questions. The self-elasticity was conceptualized and conceived as a measure by Block (1980), and for the study, Huyn jin Park’s measure (1997) translated for the use was applied.
The followings are the summarized results of the study.
First, as a result of the statue of using internet by juveniles, the survey shows 21.3% have used internet for 3 years and 70.2% for 5years, among the respondents. 84.3 %( 55.3% at his own room, 29% at his brother’s or living room) have used internet at home, and the time zone for internet use is from 7 PM to 2AM most frequently. The main reason of using internet is for game, but it is used for keeping an interpersonal relationship (e-mail, chatting etc.) as well as for getting information (library/scanning/web-surfing etc.) This is the case rather for using the internet for game causing addiction than for using it for information, which can lead to a potential problem with juveniles
Secondly, the more life stress is severe, the less ego-resilience is low, showing the high tendency toward addiction, however. Meanwhile, the score for addition appeared low even though the life stress is severe, provided the ego-resilience is high.
Thirdly, the level explaining the influence for internet addicting score showed the life stress statistically acts on meaningful, static influence and the ego-resilience on meaningful, dynamic.
Fourthly, in the degree explaining the most internet addicting score, the stress in the problem related to school life is the main concern, and next to in the use of spare time and in the relationship with the same sex.
Reviewing the results of the study, the more Juveniles get stressed-out, the more they become addicted as well as they use internet. However, the juvenile who has higher ego-resilience isn’t so high as them in spite of much life stress. These results suggest that for juveniles, improving ego-resilience along is the key element for controlling internet addiction-proneness, let alone reducing and managing the stress from routine life.