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Comparative Study

| Published: December 25, 2016

Internet Addiction among Graduation and Post graduation Students

Tarlika L Zalawadia

Associate Professor, Smt. R. R. Patel Mahila Arts & Commerce College, Rajkot, Gujarat, India Google Scholar More about the auther

DIP: 18.01.021/20160484

DOI: 10.25215/0484.021

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The cardinal object of the present study was to investigate the Internet Addiction among Graduation and Post Graduation students. The present study consisted sample of 280 students subjects (140 Graduation students and 140 Post Graduation students studying in computer science), selected through random sampling technique from Rajkot city of Gujarat state. Data was collected with the help of Internet Addiction scale developed by Yung (1998), this scale was Gujarati Translated developed by Detroja (2007). For data analysis and hypothesis testing Mean, SD, and Anova test was applied. Results revealed that there is a significant difference between internet addiction of male and female student. That result shows female student are more internet addict compare to male student. And there is no significant difference between Internet Addiction of BCA and MCA students. There is no significant interaction effect between Internet Addiction of types of education and gender.

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ISSN 2348-5396

ISSN 2349-3429

18.01.021/20160484

10.25215/0484.021

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Published in   Volume 04, Issue 8, October-December, 2016