A Study of Internet Addiction and Self-Concept on Elementary School Students
Abstract
The purposes of this study are to understand the present situation of elementary school students' Internet behavior, Internet addiction and self-concept, and to analyze the correlations among these three above-mentioned variables.
The study is carried out through literature reviews, case surveys and interviews. The subjects are the 5th and 6th grade students at elementary schools in Kaohsiung City. By cluster sampling, the researcher sends out 1112 copies of questionnaire, and receives 1052 valid copies. The collected data are analyzed in the form of descriptive statistics, t-test, one¡Vway ANOVA, and Pearson's product-moment correlation. The top 5% of the Internet addition scores of the samples are interviewed in groups.
The major findings of this study are as follows:
1. Family is the major factor that affects elementary school students' Internet behavior and Internet addiction.
2. Virtual interactive Internet activity may easily lead to Internet addiction.
3. In different aspects, elementary school students' self-conception varies in results.
4. Students who spend most of time surfing or e-mailing have better self-concept performance than the others.
5. The more obvious the tendency toward Internet addiction is, the higher mental ego the self-concept shows.
6. The more obvious the tendency toward Internet addiction is, the lower ability-ego and physical ego the self-concept shows.
According to these results, some suggestions are presented to educational institutions, educators, counselors and parents. It is expected that understanding the relations between Internet addiction and self-concept of elementary school students, can facilitate to shape appropriate attitude toward Internet, to develop students' self-concept, and to improve students' adaptation to their lives.
Keyword: Internet behavior, Internet addiction, self-concept
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0615106-104804 |
| Date | 15 June 2006 |
| Creators | Chen, Wen-Ju |
| Contributors | jia-rong Wen, ching-hwu Tsai, wun-ji Luo |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | Cholon |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0615106-104804 |
| Rights | restricted, Copyright information available at source archive |
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