OBJECTIVE: It's practically significant to study college students' behavior and psychology in using the Internet so as to guide them to take advantage of the Internet properly and to promote the proper use of the Internet. DATA SOURCES: The related articles indexed in the Medline Databank from January 2000 to January 2004 were searched by using computer with the index words "students' psychology, computer communication netware, elements analysis", and the language of the articles was limited to English. Meanwhile, the related articles indexed in the Full-length Chinese Journals Databank, Wanfang Databank and the Journal of Chinese Clinical Rehabilitation from January 2000 to January 2004 were searched through the computer with the index words "students' behavior, internet behavior, analysis of elements ", and the language of the articles was limited to Chinese. The subjects of the study were the Chinese college students aged 18 -24.STUDY SELECTION: The materials were studied first to choose the literature on the analysis of the collage students' Internet psychology and behavior. Inclusion criteria: ① random clinical trials; ② Aged 18-20. Exclusion criteria: ① Obviously not random clinical trials; ② Repeated study, syntheses, and Mata analysis articles. For the articles that we found, we conducted a search for each full-length article.DATA EXTRACTION: A total of 81 articles accorded with the standards were involved.DATA SYNTHESIS: From the comprehensive analysis of involved articles, we found that more college students' use the web just for communication, entertainment, excitement, and spiritual sustenance.CONCLUSION: This paper analyzes the modern college students' behavioral and psychological characteristics in Internet use from the perspectives of self-awareness, mood and emotion motivation, sexual psychology and so on respectively. It also puts forward an educational policy on how to instruct the college students to make use of the Internet properly and overcome the problems of psychology towards the Internet.