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| Published: August 04, 2021
Emotional Intelligence and Internet Addiction among Young Adults from North East, India
Research Scholar, Department of Psychology, Kristu Jayanti College (Autonomous), Bangalore, India Google Scholar More about the auther
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Kristu Jayanti College (Autonomous), Bangalore, India Google Scholar More about the auther
DIP: 18.01.051.20210903
DOI: 10.25215/0903.051
ABSTRACT
The aim of the study is to analyse the relationship between Emotional Intelligence and Internet Addiction among young adults ranging from 15 to 25 years of age from Northeast India. The sample includes 144 participants (F=71, M=73) under study. The tool used for measuring Emotional Intelligence was The Emotional Intelligence Test by Emily A. Sterrett (2014) and the tool used for measuring Internet Addiction was the Internet Addiction Test by Kimberly Young (1998). Descriptive statistics, Pearsons’ correlation and independent sample t-test was used to study the data. The findings of the study showed that there was no significant relationship between Emotional Intelligence and Internet Addiction. The study further showed that there was no significant gender difference in Emotional Intelligence and also there was no significant gender difference in Internet Addiction among young adults.
Keywords
Emotional Intelligence, Internet Addiction, Young Adults, Gender
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.
© 2021, Nienglalchawi E.& Lokesh L.
Received: June 07, 2021; Revision Received: July 22, 2021; Accepted: August 04, 2021
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ISSN 2348-5396
ISSN 2349-3429
18.01.051.20210903
10.25215/0903.051
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Published in Volume 09, Issue 3, July- September, 2021