A Study to Assess the Internet Addiction among Adolescents Studying in Dyal Singh Government Senior Secondary School, Mirjajan, District Gurdaspur, Punjab

Abstract

Aim: The aim of the study was to assess the level of internet addiction among adolescents and to find out the association between the level IA among adolescents studying in Government Senior Secondary School, Mirjajan, and their selected demographic variables and to distribute pamphlets related to conscious use of internet.

Methodology: The descriptive study was conducted in Dyal Singh Government Smart Senior Secondary School. The study accessible population was adolescents selected by simple random sampling technique. Data were collected from adolescents by modified Internet Addiction Test. Data were analyzed by descriptive and inferential statistics through bar and pie diagrams.

Results: It shows that 55.0% of adolescents were having moderate internet addiction, 21.7% of adolescents were having mild internet addiction, 16.7% of them were normal users, and only 6.7% of them were having severe internet addiction. Chi-square value between level of internet addiction and sociodemographic variables including occupation of mother with P = 0.001, occupation of father with P = 0.780, education of mother with P = 0.052, and education of father with P = 0.003 was found to be statistically significant at the level of 0.05.

Conclusion: The findings of the present study revealed that majority of the adolescents were having moderate internet addiction and there was a significant association between the level of internet addiction with occupation and education of parents.