This study examined the internet usage and internet addiction of adolescents.
The purpose of this study was to find out the prevalence and the problems of Internet addiction disorder of youth.
These days, the development of the Internet is rapidly cha...
This study examined the internet usage and internet addiction of adolescents.
The purpose of this study was to find out the prevalence and the problems of Internet addiction disorder of youth.
These days, the development of the Internet is rapidly changing. It is not extra-ordinary but common story on the mass media including TV and newspaper. No sooner did we step into the cyber space, we became absorbed in and accustomed to the cyber space in our daily life. Thus we expect to encounter huge changes in human relationship and quality of human life.
In this study, we investigate the addictive internet usage according to variables such as time, using period, purpose etc. with personal, family, social system. So identifies the relation between the addictive usage of internet and the problem behavior, the factors affecting addictive usage of internet, and compares a problem behavior group with a non-problem behavior group in addictive usage group.
The study showed that the factors affecting the addictive usage of internet are male, using time, accessibility.
Second, the factors affecting the problem behavior are self-control, family support and the addictive usage of internet.
And the study showed that it should be provided accurate diagnosis and measures for the youth, who did not realize yet by themselves even though they already addicted by Internet.
The Internet had already become a part of the teenagers culture and the virtual reality is the teenagers life itself. In this situation, there are arising social concerns for the teenagers who life in the cyber place.
On the basis of this research we find out the problem of Internet addiction disorder of youth and have to prevent addictive usage of Internet by Adolescents.