ABSTRACT

 
Article : INTERNET ADDICTION AMONG ADOLESCENTS AND ITS IMPACT ON ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT
Author Name : Md Nehajul SK and Dr. Nabi Ahmad
Abstract : Modern technologies have touched every aspects of student life on every educational field all over the world. Internet is such modern technological tool, the use of which has help the students in developing and sharpening their skills and at the same time the excessive use of internet has led some of them to the door of the danger of being addictive to it. The present study examines the prevalence of internet addiction among adolescent students and its impact on their academic achievements. The adolescent students studying in class XI and XII of different government and private schools of Aligarh city constitute the population of the study. A survey questionnaire was used to obtain data from 242 students. Percentage Mean and Correlation were calculated to analyse the data. It was found that there is a considerable number of students who are slightly addicted to internet while few of them were severely addicted. It was also found that there is an inverse correlation between internet addiction and academic achievement. Those who were using it for longer period of time have been found to be more prone to internet addiction.
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