INTERNET ADDICTION AMONG ADOLESCENTS IN RELATION TO ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT AT HIGH SCHOOL STAGE

Abstract

Internet is an increasingly essential part of everyday life. Internet provides the ease to access any information and communication with anyone at anytime. but internet has another side i.e., internet addiction. It's addictive nature husts the progress of the youth. Often instead of browsing through relevant pages children end up spending a lot of time on social media, online games or simply watching unrelated videos on the web. In this context, a study has been conducted to examine the internet addiction among adolescents in relation to academic achievement at high school stage. To fulfill the objectives of study, the data were collected randomly from high school students. The sample size was 200 high school students from Jammu city. In the present study, Internet Addiction Scale (IAS) by Gulati, Kurisunkal and Bakliwal (2021) was employed as a tool for the collection of data. In order to analyze the data, statistical techniques namely percentage and t-test were employed. The findings reveal that 21% adolescents have normal level of internet addiction,61.5% adolescents have moderate level of internet addiction and 17.5% adolescents have severe level of internet addiction with respect the level of academic achievement 44.5% adolescents have above average, 30.5% adolescents have average, 9.5% adolescents have below average, 11% adolescents have low and 4.5% adolescents have extremely low level of academic achievement. No significant differences in internet addiction among adolescents in relation to their academic achievement at high school have been found. No significant differences in internet addiction among adolescents in relation to their gender, economic status, type of family, residential background. No significant differences in academic achievement among adolescents in relation to their economic status, type of family and residential background have been found. However across all dimensions of IAS, female adolescents are found to have higher academic achievement in comparison to male adolescents. Keywords: Internet Addiction, Academic Achievement, Adolescents and High School