Title: A Study on the Relationship between Internet Usage Time and Internet Dependence Attitude of High School Students
Stream: Social Media and Communication Technology
Presentation Type: Oral Presentation
Authors:
Nagayuki Saito, International Professional University of Technology in Tokyo, Japan
Abstract:
The issue of prolonged use of the Internet and video games by young people has been discussed in society. Such behavior has become a social problem, so-called "Internet addiction" or "game addiction. In particular, it has been pointed out that the increased use of the Internet and video games during the Corona disaster may increase the risk of dependence (Oka, et al. 2021 ).
In this study, we investigated and analyzed the relationship between the Internet and game playing time and the Internet Addiction Test (IAT) developed by Young (1998) in the context of a possible increase in Internet use by youths. The study was conducted via a web-based questionnaire platform in December 2021; from 4,343 subjects, 3,722 subjects aged 15 to 18 years old, who corresponded to high school age, were screened and analyzed.
The results of the analysis showed that the mean of the subjects' degree of Internet dependence was 49.89 points. According to the IAT's evaluation criteria, a score of 20-39 points on a total of 20 questions indicates an average user, a score of 40-69 indicates a user who has problems caused by the Internet and needs to review the impact of the Internet on his/her life, and a score of 70-100 indicates a user who has a serious level of impact of the Internet on his/her life and needs to review it immediately. So that this result intends that the average user is defined as having a level of mental problems caused by the Internet. Furthermore, when the subjects' IAT scores were classified into three levels of severity of Internet dependence, 62.39% of the subjects had problems using the Internet, and 10.34% of the subjects were rated as having serious problems. However, about 70% of subjects who used the Internet for less than one hour per day rated their Internet use as having psychological problems in their Internet use according to the IAT's assessment. Thus, it cannot be said that the length of time spent on the Internet increases the risk of Internet dependence.
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