2001 10-4 The Study of College Student Internet Addiction and Its Path Model
The problem of college student Internet addiction has become an important issue that draws attention from the general public as well as scholars of different fields. This research aims to find out the psychological need of college students for using the Internet, how they utilize it and the reasons for their addiction. There is also a comparison between male and female students concerning their differences in Internet addiction. This research then moves on to find out the validity of the path model in such addiction.
In this research, the subjects were 213 college students in the day division, randomlychosen from six different schools located in various parts of Taiwan. The instrumentused in this research was a self-compiled questionnaire based on the evaluation
form by Yu-Ling Chang (1998) and Jia-Hsing Yang (2001). The data collected
were processed by using MANOVA, product-moment correlation, Regression analysis,
and linear structure analysis. The results are as follows:
1. Male college students show a stronger tendency toward Internet addiction than female
college students.
2. There is a negative correlation between motives for leisure activities and leisure boredom, whereas a positive correlation exists between the leisure boredom and the Internet activity, Internet psychological need and Internet addiction.
3. The factors that can predict individual addiction include intrinsic leisure motivation, the Internet.
4. The most successful element in predicting Internet addiction is the need for affinity, followed by virtual feelings, leisure challenges, structural constraints, recreation, the need for autonomy, self-decided leisure activities and the use of information, arranged according to their degree of influence.
5. Net addiction path model basically does not conform to the study of the previously proposed theoretical framework.
Keywords
College student, Internet addiction, Path model
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