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Understanding for internet use of college students: Focusing on personality, emotion, adjustment, internet use motivation, addiction

Jiyeoun Park 1 Mi Kyoung Song 2 Yang Nanmee 1

1경상대학교
2서울여자대학교

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ABSTRACT

Purpose of this study is to look into internet use pattern of college students and to investigate relationships with personality trait, negative emotion, college life adjustment, internet use motivation and internet addiction according to average internet use time. Specifically, they were divided into two groups in order to find out factors which have influence over internet addiction; one group was use the internet for under 2 hours a day, and another group was use the internet for more than 3 hours a day. The participants in the study were 433 college students and the internet use motivation scale, internet addiction scale for college students, personality trait scale of 5 factors, alienation scale and college life adjustment scale were used for this study. A multi-variate analysis was conducted in order to find out any difference in sub-factors of respective scale as per group while a multiple regression analysis was conducted in order to compare variables affecting internet addiction. The major results are as follows: Degree of college life adjustment was higher in the group of less than 2 hours while degree of internet addiction, neurosis and alienation was higher in the group of more than 3 hours. Both groups showed that factors meaningfully influencing internet addiction were the emotional adaptation, a sub-factor of college life adjustment and the obsession motivation, that of internet use motivation while the group of less than 2 hours revealed that sexual motivation was the only meaningfully factor. This study showed to the importance of preventive education of internet addiction

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