A psychological study of aspiration and internet addiction on academic achievement of adolescents

Page: 441-444

Pratibha Kapahi (Department of Psychology, Model Inter +2 School, Samastipur, Bihar)

The study was conducted to assess the effect of level of internet addiction (H-L) and level of aspirations educational aspiration (H-L) and occupational aspirations (H-L) on academic achievement/ performance of adolescents.100 adolescents (50 Boys & 50 Girls ) were involved in the study. The Educational aspiration Scale (Saxena’s, 1984) and Occupational aspiration Scale (Grewal,1975) and the Internet Addiction questionnaire (Kimberly Young, 1992) were taken and considered as independent variables and academic achievement of adolescents were considered as dependent variables in the present study. For assess the Academic Achievement marks secured by the students in their last consecutive examination of 10+2 were used. High scores on Educational aspiration and Occupational aspiration shows that adolescent were high aspirant toward their educational as well as occupational choices and vice-versa also Educational and Occupational aspiration has a positive and contributory effect on the Academic achievement of adolescents. Results also revealed that High scores on the Internet Addiction shows poor academic achievement of adolescents. The obtained data were analyzed with Mean, SDs, SEM, and mean difference were computed by computing t-test.