Abstract
The purpose of this research is to investigate the prevalence of internet addiction and positive psychological health among Chinese college students and to explore the relationship of positive psychological health and internet addiction. A total number of 811 university students (the mean age: 19.70 years) who completed a on line survey that included the Internet Addiction Test (IAT) and PERMA scale. According to results, internet addiction was different between grade and personality and psychological health was different in gender and personality. Students with higher levels of internet addiction are more likely to be low in positive psychological health. The results indicated that positive psychological health was affected by Internet addiction negatively; and provided a better understanding on the positive psychological interventions in reduce internet addiction among Chinese college students.
Highlights
Internet services as a technological advancement tool, which offers several direct benefits in our daily life
The results showed the there was a significant differences of internet addiction across the different grade of university students: F(3,807)=5.82, p
Post hoc analysis showed the differences were between first year (M=29.75, SD=17.22) and second year university students (M=24.56, SD=15.47) and between second year (M=24.56, SD=15.47) and fourth year university student (M=31.38, SD=19.26)
Summary
Internet services as a technological advancement tool, which offers several direct benefits in our daily life. Internet delivers some practical purpose such as on-line shopping, business transaction, communication, social sharing and entertainment [1,2,3] Despite those inherent advantages, many studies showed excessive internet use attribute negative effects to people’s physical, social and psychological health, such as tiredness depression; loneness lower self-esteem [47]. There is still lack of a consensual definition of internet addiction, many scholars have agreed that internet addiction is a maladaptive pattern of internet use [15,16] It does time-consuming, and lead to clinically significant impairment, and negative, behavioral, psychological and physical consequences [17,18]
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