Internet addiction and educational attitude

Abstract

The investigator aimed to find out the impact of internet addiction on educational attitude of adolescent students. Through non-probability random sampling 200 adolescent students of higher secondary class were selected from Muzaffarpur District of Bihar. Internet addiction test developed by Kimberly young and adapted and standardized in Hindi language by researcher himself was used while educational attitude was measured through educational attitude scale developed by Dr. C Bhasin. For data analysis descriptive analysis and Pearson’s Coefficient of Correlation ‘r’ were employed to achieve the objective of this study. Results revealed that internet addiction had negative effect on the educational attitude of adolescents having r-values -.249significat at .05 (two tailed).  The negative two tailed r – value indicated that internet addiction not only impact educational attitude of internet addicted samples but also reveal the fact that the two variables affected negatively one another.  The   r calculated between internet non-addicted group and their educational attitude scores is – .615 significant at .01(two tailed) level of confidence. The two variables, internet addiction and educational attitude negatively affecting each other simultaneously.