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| Published: March 29, 2017
Prevalence and Nature of Internet Use among Adolescents in Vadodara (Gujarat)
Research Scholar, Dept. of Psychology, The M. S. University of Baroda, Vadodara, Gujarat, India Google Scholar More about the auther
Associate Professor, Dept. of Psychology, The M. S. University of Baroda, Vadodara, Gujarat, India Google Scholar More about the auther
DIP: 18.01.164/20170402
DOI: 10.25215/0402.164
ABSTRACT
Internet has been a very facilitating medium and making lives easier for many of us. Internet is increasingly becoming a channel through which people, and especially adolescents, socialize and be in constant contact with their family, relatives and friends. More than a medium of acquiring knowledge, for adolescents, it has become a medium of expression of their implicit feelings and to know what is happening in their peer group. The current research aims to study the prevalence and nature of Internet use among adolescents. Population for the research included adolescents of Vadodara District in Gujarat. A total of 1657 adolescents were taken as the sample for the study. A survey research was conducted on 1657 adolescents using a self developed questionnaire along with Young’s Internet Addiction test. Results indicate that 44.8% of the participants are Average Users of the Internet, while 14.6% of the participants belong to the category of above average users of the Internet. The present study also shows that participants use the Internet mainly for social communication and social networking sites are the most commonly used sites on the Internet.
Keywords
Internet, Internet Use, adolescents, Social Networking Sites
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.
© 2017 Jhala J, Sharma R
Received: February 28, 2017; Revision Received: March 23, 2017; Accepted: March 29, 2017
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ISSN 2348-5396
ISSN 2349-3429
18.01.164/20170402
10.25215/0402.164
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Published in Volume 04, Issue 2, January-March, 2017