The purpose of this study is to find out the relationship between gender, internet-addiction, study achievement, and mental health of middle school students. Our thesis are that there will be meaningful relations on the mental health and study achieve...
The purpose of this study is to find out the relationship between gender, internet-addiction, study achievement, and mental health of middle school students. Our thesis are that there will be meaningful relations on the mental health and study achievement of students according to gender and the level differences of internet-addition of them. The subjects for this study were randomly sampled from 'W' middle school in Seoul and they are consisted of 205 male and 190 Female students of 1st graders. Students were given K-Scale and AMPQ-Ⅱ which are questionnaires for measuring the level of internet-addiction and mental health. The study achievement data of students were collected through diagnostic tests in Korean, English, and Mathematics subjects. The collected data was analyzed using two-way ANOVA and Multiple Regression Analysis by SPSS 12.0.
The results are as follows. First, impact of gender and the level of internet-addiction toward the study achievement[model 1] is that gender does not significantly have correlation with the study achievement. The model 1 is 30% accounted with .292 of the R squared value. Second, impact of gender and the level of internet-addiction toward the mental health[model 2] is that gender also does not significantly have correlation with the mental health. The model 2 is about 6% explained with .064 of the R squared value. The findings through the study are that more number of males students tend to misuse internet and to have internet addiction than female students and that it accordingly has impacts on their study achievement and mental health.