University students' Internet use and its relationships with academic performance, interpersonal relationships, psychosocial adjustment, and self-evaluation.
This study examined the relationships between university students' Internet use and students' academic performance, interpersonal relationships, psychosocial adjustment, and self-evaluation. The study was based on data drawn from a national survey of college students in Taiwan. A stratified sample of 49,609 students (2005-2006 academic year juniors) was randomly selected from 156 universities (174,277 students). Students completed a questionnaire online. Heavy Internet users and nonheavy Internet users differed significantly on a number of dimensions. Nonheavy users had better relationships with administrative staff, academic grades, and learning satisfaction than heavy Internet users. Heavy users were more likely than non-heavy Internet users to be depressed, physically ill, lonely, and introverted.
Chen
Ying-Fang
YF
Center for Research on Educational Evaluation and Development, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan, Republic of China. pie.ie92g@nctu.edu.tw <pie.ie92g@nctu.edu.tw>
Peng
Samuel S
SS
D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D004521:Educational Measurement; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D012016:Reference Values; D012647:Self-Assessment; D012737:Sex Factors; D018709:Statistics, Nonparametric; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D013624:Taiwan; D013997:Time Factors; D014495:Universities