These days, most of teenagers are influenced by development of internet than other generation. They are making their own culture that previous generation did not expect entirely through computer game, internet chatting, and searching and sharing infor...
These days, most of teenagers are influenced by development of internet than other generation. They are making their own culture that previous generation did not expect entirely through computer game, internet chatting, and searching and sharing information. and they can find the imaginary world that can help that they forget the oppressive feelings caused by the real world. More over, the young generation of today enjoys computer as a new exciting toy by development of multimedia technology than of yesterday.
The purpose of this research is to study the relationship between the Internet addiction and Adaptability of Juveniles to school Life as focusing on the academic high school students in Kwang ju region. This survey is based on 430 high school students. In order to analysis the internet addiction of students, we surveyed the extent of internet addiction, the actual condition of internet using due to internet addiction. In addiction, we examine whether following subordinate variables of the adaptability to school show difference according to the internet addition : motivation for study, study environment, future plan, relationship with friends, feelings on school environments, school rules.
According to the results of the survey, 71.1% of subjects respond that purpose of using internet is to play on-line game, l2.6% of them to chatting and only a few of them to access useful information for study. Students who suffer from severe internet addition log on at any time and continue to use internet over three hours for a day. Subjects use internet usually at home and the survey the parents do not care about it.
14.4% of subjects suffer from sever internet addition, 61.7% of them show the symptom of internet addition, and 23.9% do not have the symptom.
internet addition students show problems to adapt themselves to school.
According to the result of analysis on subordinate variables of adaptability to school, the scores of addicted subjects on motivation for study, study environment, relationships with friend, and relationship with teachers are significantly different from the scores of normal students. However, the future plan of addicted students has no significant different from the scores of normal students. Scores on feelings on school, school environment and school rules are significantly different between addicted and normal students.
Based on the findings of this study, the researcher supported the following recommendations :
First, to prevent the Internet addiction and to adapt school life, continuous internet teaching programs are needed,
Second, by reflecting interests or character of adolescent, politically introduce a internet education that can guide healthy usage is needed.
Third, because the understanding and sharing internet culture of parents is related to the adolescent’s internet addiction, we should be extend the internet culture to be shared between parents and children by educational programs of parents.
Finally, Professional treatment will be required strongly for the heavily addicted students so that students can be back to the ordinary studying environment.