Internet addiction and subjective well-beACing of university students

Pages: 787-794
Nishat Afroz (Department of Psychology, MMV, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh)

In today’s world technology have an enormous impact on the young generation. For youth, the Internet offers a number of risks along with a multitude of opportunities. In the present study internet addiction in context of social networking sites and subjective well-being of university students has been studied. The assumption of the present study was that “the one who are most addicted to the internet have poor subjective well-being whereas, the one who are less addicted have good subjective well-being”.A sample of 100 university students (male & female both) was taken of age group 18 -23 years from Varanasi. Participants were selected who are at least 18 years old, must have an internet access in personal mobile, computers, laptops, etc. and, must spent on an average two hours a day online for private purposes. Data have been analysed by using descriptive analysis, t-test, and coefficient of correlation. Findings indicated that level of Internet addiction is high among the university students and Internet addiction affects the subjective well-being of the students.