INTERNET ADDICTION AND LEVEL OF ANXIETY AMONG SCHOOL STUDENTS
Internet Addiction is a rising problem among the Indian school students. The purpose of this research was to find out the extent of internet addiction among higher secondary level school students and the anxiety of higher secondary level school students having different levels of internet addiction...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Institute for Human Rehabilitation
2023-04-01
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| Series: | Human Research in Rehabilitation |
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| Summary: | Internet Addiction is a rising problem among the Indian school students. The purpose of this research
was to find out the extent of internet addiction among higher secondary level school students and the anxiety of higher secondary level school students having different levels of internet addiction. The research was
conducted on 600 students of CBSE schools in Bhopal. The information was collected by Internet Addiction
Scale and General Anxiety Scale. The findings revealed that 10% had normal level of internet addiction,
56% had mild level of internet addiction, 33% had moderate level of internet addiction and just 1% had severe level of internet addiction, the lower the level of internet addiction the lower will be the anxiety of the
higher secondary level school students and girls are found to have significantly higher anxiety than boys. |
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| ISSN: | 2232-9935 2232-996X |