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| Published: March 14, 2022
Effect of Internet Addiction on Mental Health among College Students
School Psychologist, SBV Delhi, India
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Research Scholar, S.D. (PG) College Ghaziabad, India
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Associate Professor, Department of Psychology S.D. (PG) College, Ghaziabad, India
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DIP: 18.01.081.20221001
DOI: 10.25215/1001.081
ABSTRACT
This study investigates the effect of internet addiction on mental health among college students. Present study was conducted on 80 college students (40 boys and 40 girls) in Ghaziabad city. Data was collected using standardized questionnaires. Internet addiction was measured by “YOUNG’S Internet Addiction Questionnaire” and mental health by “VEIT AND WARE’S Mental Health Inventory”. Two-way analysis of variance was used to analyse the data. After analysis of the data, effect of internet addiction on mental health was found significant at .01 level of confidence while effect of gender difference was found non – significant. Interaction effect also was not found significant at any level of confidence. It can be concluded that internet addiction is affecting the mental health of our college youth significantly.
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This is an Open Access Research distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any Medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
© 2022, Chauhan K., Tiwari A. & Sharma V.
Received: January 14, 2022; Revision Received: February 28, 2022; Accepted: March 14, 2022
Dr. Vandana Sharma @ vandanasep@yahoo.co.in
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ISSN 2348-5396
ISSN 2349-3429
18.01.081.20221001
10.25215/1001.081
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Published in Volume 10, Issue 1, January-March, 2022