Mahadevaswamy, P. and Lancy, D'Souza (2017) Effect of internet addiction on subjective well-being among adolescents. Asian Journal of Development Matters, 11 (1). pp. 80-90. ISSN 0976-4674
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The present study aims to find out the effect of internet addiction on subjective wellbeing of adolescents studying in and around Mysuru city. A total of 720 adolescents were included in the present study, having equal number of male and female students studying in 10, 11 and 12th standards. They were administered Internet addiction scale (Young, 1998) and satisfaction with life scale (Diener et al, 1995). Two-way ANOVA was employed to find out the effect of internet addiction on subjectivewellbeing, including select demographic variables-school type, area and gender. Results revealed that Internet addiction did not have significant influence over the subjective wellbeing scores. Adolescents studying in government schools had highest subjective wellbeing scores and adolescents studying in unaided schools had least wellbeing scores. Adolescents from rural area had higher subjective wellbeing scores compared to adolescents from urban area. Gender did not have significant influence over subjective wellbeing of the adolescents
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | A Arts and Humanities > Psychology |
| Divisions: | Department of > Psychology |
| Depositing User: | C Swapna Library Assistant |
| Date Deposited: | 11 Jun 2019 06:26 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Jun 2019 06:26 |
| URI: | http://eprints.uni-mysore.ac.in/id/eprint/2950 |
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