Relationships among School Children's Internet Addiction, Family Environment and School Adjustment.
- Author:
Ji Young KIM
1
;
Hyun Sook RYU
Author Information
1. Department of Nursing, College of Medicine, Seonam University, Korea.kimjy@seonam.ac.kr
- Publication Type:Original Article
- Keywords:
Internet addiction;
Family environment;
School adjustment
- MeSH:
Child;
Humans;
Internet*;
Child Health
- From:Korean Journal of Child Health Nursing
2003;9(2):198-205
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
PURPOSE: The purpose of this study is to investigate the degree of school children's internet addiction and to explicit the relationship among the internet addiction, family environment and school adjustment. METHOD: The subjects of the study were 640 students from 5th and 6th year children of five elementary schools in G city. The data were analyzed by SAS program with frequency, percentage, means, standard deviation, chi2-test, ANOVA and Pearson's Correlation Coefficient. RESULT: In the degree of the internet addiction were 10.0% of addiction group, 58.0% of intermediate group, and 32.0% of nonaddiction group. There were significant differences in family environment score(F=25.09, p=.0001) and school adjustment score(F=34.46, p=.0001) regarding internet addiction degree. The relationship among internet addiction score, family environment score and school adjustment score revealed a significant inverse correlation(r=-0.32, p=.0001, r=-0.35, p=.0001). And the relationship between family environment score and school adjustment score revealed a significant correlation(r=0.52, p=.0001). CONCLUSION: The degree of school children's internet addiction has been found to be very high and correlated to the family environment and school adjustment. Therefore, programs should be developed in order to improve this situation.
