Clicks and Connection: How Internet Habits and Family Bonds Impact Student Success

Abstract

The internet has ingrained itself into peoples' daily lives. It is regarded as the media that is used the most extensively worldwide. The development of the internet has altered many facets of daily life, including how people engage with one another and amuse themselves thanks to the plethora of social networking sites. The goal of the current investigation was to find out how internet addiction & parent-child relationship affected secondary school children' academic performance. The study categorised academic performance as a dependent variable and parent-child relationship & internet addiction as independent variables. Study's methodology was descriptive survey. Using a multistage random selection approach, 700 Sec. School students were selected as a sample. In order to gather the data, Internet Addiction Scale by Gulati, Kurisunkal & Bakliwal (2021) and Parent-child Relationship by Nalini Rao (2016) were used. For the Academic performance measure, the researcher had to depend upon the school examination record of the respective schools. Academic performance of secondary school pupils and internet addiction were shown to differ significantly. Students in secondary schools were shown to have a substantial impact on their academic achievement from their parent-child relationship. The study's conclusions showed that there was a substantial double interaction impact between internet addiction & parent-child relationships on secondary school students' academic performance.