Internet Addiction, Mental Health and Academic Performance of School Students/Adolescents

Abstract

Every student desires to perform well in schooling whether it is academic performance or others. Students’ performance gets distorted by many factors like overburden, difficulty of subject etc. Information technology has put another kind of burden on students. It is interesting on one hand while distracting on the other hand. This is mainly use of internet among adolescents due increasing literacy of computer and its uses in day today life. Observing present scenario the current study is aimed to find out the effect of internet addiction on mental health and academic performance of students. The sample consisted of 100 high school students, age ranging, 14 to 16 years drawn randomly from English medium schools of Rishikesh & Haridwar (Uttarakhand). Findings of the present study revealed that there was a significant effect of internet addiction on academic performance and mental health of students/adolescents. Results further indicated that the students who were in the severe and profound groups of internet addiction were found to have detrimental effects on both in their academic performance and mental health rather than the students who were addicted to the internet usage moderately.

Ergenlerin Sosyal Medya Bağımlılık Düzeylerinin Bazı Sosyo Demografik Değişkenler Açısından İncelenmesi

“…) geçirmek yerine internet kullanarak geçirdiklerini belirtmektedir. Dolayısıyla internet ve sosyal medya kullanımı ve akademik performans arasında anlamlı ilişkilerin olduğu, akademik performans düzeyi düşük olan öğrencilerin sosyal medya ve internet bağımlılık düzeylerinin daha yüksek olduğu görülmektedir (Deniz & Gürültü, 2018;Doğrusever, 2015;Singh & Barmola, 2015;Tanrıverdi & Sağır, 2014). Young'un (1996) internet bağımlılığına ilişkin geliştirmiş olduğu tanı kriterlerine bakıldığında; internet kullanımına ilişkin memnuniyeti sağlamak için giderek artan miktarda internet kullanımı ihtiyacı hissetmek ve planladığından daha uzun süreler internete girmek bağımlılık riski geliştirmede internette geçirilen sürenin önemli bir tanı kriteri olduğunu göstermektedir.…”

Social Media Addiction And Academic Achievement of Secondary Level School Students

“…To Study the level of Social Media Addiction of Secondary School students According to Table 6.1 Social Media Addiction Scale, from the target sample group 53.4% (87) of boys had no addiction to social media, 36.8% (60) of boys had possible addiction, and 9.8% (16) of boys had a severe addiction to social media. On the other hand, 50.4% (69) of girls had no addiction to social media, 41.6% (57) girls had possible addiction, and 8.0% (11) girls had a severe addiction to social media.…”

The relationship between factors of internet addiction and academic performance.

“…(Mishra et al, 2014;Ambad et al, 2017). Furthermore, heavier recreational Internet use was highly correlated with impaired academic performance (Singh & Barmola, 2015). Therefore, this study is hypothesised:…”