The relationship between internet addiction and the academic performance of second grade high school students
Subject Areas : Journal of Educational Psychology
hamid
shafizadeh
1
(Department of Educational Scieince, Garmsar Branch, Islamic Azad University, Garmsar, Iran)
Keywords: Academic performance, Internet addiction, high school students,
Abstract :
This study aimed to evaluate the relationship between Internet addiction and academic performance of second grade High School students conducted in Varamin city. The overall objective of the present study is practical and in terms of method is correlational descriptive. This research is random sampling. To calculate the sample size, Cochran formula has been used. The sample of 361volunteer students were randomly selected from Varamin city. In this study, Young's Internet Addiction questionaire is used to identify students who are addicted to internet. GPA at the end of the semester and the number of students’ failed units as academic performance indices were used. Data analysis was done by using descriptive statistics (frequency, mean and percentage) and inferential statistics (Pearson). The Results showed that 1/7 percent of users have poor addiction, 44/9 percent medium addiction and 53/5 percent severe addiction to internet. Investigation of correlational results indicates that there is a significant positive relationship between the variables of Internet addiction and the age of the students with0/95 interval confidence and also there is a significant positive relationship between the variables of the level of internet addiction and the number of failed students with 0/95 interval confidence,futhermore the research indicated that in terms of the relation between the variables of Internet addiction and the average of the students there is a significant negative relationship with 0/95 interval confidence.
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