To Study the Interaction Effect among Internet Addiction, Gender and Parental Education and Its Impact on Emotional States, Loneliness, and Wellbeing of Adolescents

Abstract

In order to analyse the data statistically, a in order to determine if college students' internet addiction was more prevalent among males or females, a t-test was calculated. If we want to learn more about how addiction to the Internet affects characteristics of personality, feelings of isolation, and mental health, researchers used SPSS to conduct The studies of step-wise multiple regression and Pearson product-moment correlation. According to statistics gathered from students' personal data sheets, 90% of them spend more than three hours a day on electronic devices. The data showed that college students' internet addiction was similar across genders.. The men' mean value was 80.5 (standard deviation = 6.128) and the females' mean value was 80.340 (standard deviation = 6.229), and the t-value was 0.170, which was determined to be statistically insignificant. The personality characteristic of openness to experience was favorably and substantially connected with online addiction (r=0.469), whereas the attribute of agreeableness was adversely associated with a -0.221 correlation with internet addiction. Consciousness was significantly inversely related to internet addiction (r= -0.530). A high degree of positive connection (r=0.679) was found between being lonely and having an addiction to the internet. When comparing internet addiction to mental health, a negative correlation of -0.585 was found, which is statistically significant.