The Effect of the Internet Use on High School Students: A Case Study of Pattani Province of Thailand

Objective: To investigate the psychiatric symptomatology and personality characteristics of Korean senior high school students considered to use the Internet to excess. Method: We administered a questionnaire packet to students that included 4 measures. These measures included a questionnaire on Internet use patterns during the previous month, the Internet Addiction Test (IAT), the Symptom Checklist-90-R (SCL-90-R), and the Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire (16PF). A total of 328 students, aged 15 to 19 years, participated in the study. Results: Students were divided into 4 Internet user groups according to their IAT total scores: nonusers ( n = 59, 18.0%), minimal users ( n = 155, 47.3%), moderate users ( n = 98, 29.9%), and excessive users ( n = 16, 4.9%). The SCL-90-R showed that the excessive users group, when compared with the other groups in this study, reported the highest levels of symptomatology. The 16PF also revealed that excessive users were easily affected by feeling, emotionally less stable, imaginative, absorbed in thought, self-sufficient, experimenting, and preferred their own decisions. Conclusions: This study suggests that senior high school students who use the Internet to excess report and subsequently exhibit significantly more psychiatric symptoms than students who use the Internet less frequently. In addition, excessive users appear to have a distinctive personality profile when compared with nonusers, minimal, and moderate users.

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Loneliness, Depression, Social Support Levels, and Other Factors Involving the Internet Use of High School Students in Turkey

International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction ◽

10.1007/s11469-018-9927-3 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 17 (6) ◽

pp. 1521-1534 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Melahat Akgün Kostak ◽

İlknur Dindar ◽

Refiye Zafer Dinçkol

Keyword(s):

Social Support ◽

High School ◽

High School Students ◽

Internet Use ◽

The Internet ◽

School Students

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Effect of internet use for health information and internet addiction on adolescents female high school’ health lifestyle

Journal of Nursing Education and Practice ◽

10.5430/jnep.v7n12p10 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 7 (12) ◽

pp. 10 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Amany A. Abdrbo ◽

Salwa Hassanein

Keyword(s):

High School ◽

High School Students ◽

Health Information ◽

Internet Addiction ◽

Internet Use ◽

The Internet ◽

Adolescent Female ◽

School Students ◽

Convenience Sample ◽

Female High School

Background and objective: There is not enough evidence linking attitudes toward using the Internet to gather health information and adolescents’ lifestyles. The objective of this study is to assess the effect of Internet use for gathering health information and Internet addiction on adolescents’ health lifestyles in Saudi Arabia.Methods: A descriptive correlational cross-sectional design was utilized to collect data from a convenience sample of 456 high-school-aged female adolescents, who completed self-administered questionnaires consisting of demographic data, attitudes toward Internet use, Internet use for seeking health information, Internet use to communicate about health, Internet addiction, and adolescent health lifestyles.Results: The adolescent female high school students’ average age was 16.88 years (SD = 1.05); Regression analyses revealed that the main effects of students’ attitudes toward the Internet, along with how using the Internet to seek health information and to communicate about health, and Internet addiction significantly (p < .001) affected these female high school students’ lifestyles subscales. However, some predictors had varied effects on lifestyle subscales.Conclusions: The general consensus of the research about Internet use among young people to date shows that adolescents use the Internet to communicate about their own health problems, but they do not address all of the dimensions of healthy lifestyle. This study will help identify lifestyle risk factors among adolescent female high school students, such as malnutrition, physical inactivity, not taking full responsibility for one’s health and not communicating enough about one’s health.

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The role of personality traits in the formation of problematic Internet use in high school students

Perspectives of science and education ◽

10.32744/pse.2021.6.18 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 54 (6) ◽

pp. 271-284

Author(s):

Irina M. Bogdanovskaya ◽

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Natalya N. Koroleva ◽

Anna B. Uglova ◽

Yulia V. Petrova ◽

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Keyword(s):

High School ◽

High School Students ◽

Internet Addiction ◽

Internet Use ◽

Personal Characteristics ◽

Problematic Internet Use ◽

The Internet ◽

School Students ◽

Internet Environment

Introduction. In the modern educational environment, the informatization of the learning process changes the process of development and socialization of schoolchildren. The widespread introduction of information technologies has both a constructive and destructive impact on the formation of young people. This actualizes the need to research the inner world of students who are affected by the negative consequences of excessive involvement in the Internet environment to create a modern system of psychological and pedagogical support. The purpose of the study: to study the influence of the characteristics of personal maturity on the formation of problematic Internet use of high school students. Materials and methods. The study of problematic Internet use was conducted using the CIAS test (Chen's Internet Addiction scale, adapted by V. L. Malygin, K. A. Feklisova). To study personal characteristics, such methods were used as: the scale of self-assessment of personal maturity (A.V. Miklyaeva.); the test of resilience (S. Muddy in the adaptation of D. Leontiev); the scale of socialization (California psychological Questionnaire); the modified method of "Who am I" by M. Kuhn, T. McPartland. The sample consisted of 1,031 people (669 girls and 362 boys), aged 14 to 18 years. Methods of mathematical statistics: methods of descriptive statistics, one-factor analysis of variance, regression analysis. The results of the study. Significant differences were revealed in a number of components of personal maturity in adolescents with different levels of involvement in the Internet environment. High school students with normative Internet use have significantly higher academic performance (H=12.35, p=0.0021), personal maturity (H=24.81, p=0.0001), reflexive maturity (H=76.26, p=0.0001), socialization (H=138.43, p=0.0001), self-esteem of the desire to grow up (H=7.25, p=0.0266). Students with problematic Internet use significantly more often have high indicators of resilience (N=225.5, p=0.0001), engagement (N=181.11, p=0.0001), control (N=172.38, p=0.0001), risk taking (N=199.62, p=0.0001). Predictors of the formation of problematic Internet use in high school students were identified: reflexive maturity (b=-0.573, p=0.000008), regulatory maturity (b=0.387, p=0.0059), level of socialization (b=-0.407, p=0.000006) and resilience (b=0.821, p=0.000001). Using regression analysis, the role of the characteristics of personal maturity and resilience in the actual determination of the CIAS Internet addiction index was determined. Conclusion. A number of new data have been obtained that reveal the personal characteristics of adolescents with different levels of involvement in the Internet environment. The role of the features of personal maturity and resilience in the actual determination of the CIAS Internet addiction index is determined. The data obtained can be used in psychological support of modern high school students in order to diagnose and prevent problematic Internet use.

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Internet use and its relationship with loneliness and social phobia in a sample of southern Italian high school students from a rural area

10.26226/morressier.5785edd1d462b80296c9a19e ◽

2016 ◽

Author(s):

Miroslav Vito Romano

Keyword(s):

High School ◽

High School Students ◽

Social Phobia ◽

Rural Area ◽

Internet Use ◽

School Students

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Asian American Dropouts: A Case Study of Vietnamese and Chinese High School Students in a New England Urban School District

10.36650/nexus7.1_83-104_uy ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

pp. 83-104 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Phitsamay Uy

Keyword(s):

High School ◽

High School Students ◽

New England ◽

Asian American ◽

Dropout Rates ◽

School Students ◽

Study Support ◽

Asian American Student ◽

K 12

In the world of K–12 education, the growing numbers of dropouts are a major concern. This article examines the dropout rates of Chinese and Vietnamese high school students. Using logistic regression analysis, this article examines the influence of ethnicity, gender, and socioeconomic status (SES) on dropout rates. The distinct contribution of this analysis lies within the intraethnic comparisons within the Asian American student population and its use of longitudinal data. The results of the study support existing research that gender and SES are related to dropout rates. Moreover, an interesting interaction between ethnicity and SES exists.

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