The purpose of this study is going to find out state of the adolescent internet addiction and psychological qualities, also there is a place objective which to examine the difference of the psychological quality which it follows in internet addiction ...
The purpose of this study is going to find out state of the adolescent internet addiction and psychological qualities, also there is a place objective which to examine the difference of the psychological quality which it follows in internet addiction subordinate type of the adolescent who had become addiction in internet does.
Subjects for this study are 1600 students from 13 different middle and high schools which located at Daegu , Ulsan City and Kyungpuk Province. (Sex rate of participants ; male - 825 , female - 775)
Tools of study that I used for this research are questionnaire of using internet, KIAS(Korean internet addiction scale), SADS(social avoidance and distress scale) and BIS Ⅱ(barratt impulsiveness scale Ⅱ).
The result of this study were as follows;
First, result shows that 3.04% of adolescent had symptom of internet addiction and 13.84% of the adolescent seemed internet addiction. It indicates that 4 out of 10 adolescent shows symptom of internet addiction, if we combined 24.54% of the adolescent who are deferred from judging internet addiction.
Second, high rated of the internet addicted group has higher impediments which are attachment, obsession, recurrence and dependance than the lower group.
Third, the internet addicted group has higher depression, impulsiveness, social avoidance and distress than the lower group.
Forth, there are huge differences among groups of internet addiction subordinate type about depression, impulsiveness, social avoidance and distress.