The purpose of this thesis is to study the relation between the Internet addiction of adolescent and family & school background as focusing on the academic high school students in Seoul region.
The phenomenon for the Internet addiction of adolescen...
The purpose of this thesis is to study the relation between the Internet addiction of adolescent and family & school background as focusing on the academic high school students in Seoul region.
The phenomenon for the Internet addiction of adolescent has appeared as social problem in recent years. In particular, the proportion of Internet addiction to Korean adolescent has increased more than the proportion of Internet addiction to American and European adolescent. For this causation, this thesis studied the relation between the Internet addiction of Korean adolescent and family & school background as a social environment and structure because family and school background as a social environment and structure is very important to the adolescent.
In Korean family, the confliction of relationship between parents and offsprings has been increased by changing extended family to nuclear family. In school, the confliction of relationship between teachers and students has been increased, and the dissatisfaction of students on a school curriculum has been increased by system of an entrance examination. For this reason, adolescents are interested in the Internet instead of their family and school, and over-using with the Internet causes the Internet addiction.
This study surveyed with questionnaire, and analyzed 666 valid samples through SPSS program.
As a result, 16.1% of the students was identified as Internet addicts in this research. In the family background, the Internet addiction of adolescent was influenced by the mother's occupation, the concern of parent, the confliction of parents and offsprings, the method of bringing up offsprings of parents, and the Internet control of parents. In the school background, the Internet addiction of adolescent was influenced by the level of school recorded grade, the participation of tutor and institution, the satisfaction of school curriculum and system of an entrance examination, satisfaction for school friends, and the Internet control of teacher. Therefore, the Internet addiction of Korean adolescents was influenced by their family and school background, so to prevent the Internet addiction of adolescent, we have to recognize importance of the family and school background.