A Study on the Life Meaning and Internet Addiction of Adolescents

• Main Authors: WANG, LI-FONG, 王麗鳳
• Other Authors: Ho Li-Hsing
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2011
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/75587290324588744992

碩士 === 中華大學 === 科技管理學系碩士班 === 99 === The spread of Wireless Lan causes a sharp increase in net-using population, and makes users spend more and more time on the Net. However, due to excessively or improperly using the Internet, it also easily causes users to be unable to invest their spirit and time in the real world, and then affects interaction with others in the real world. For teenagers, excessively or improperly using the Internet has an influence on their interpersonal relationships, academic performance, and recognition of social norms. The development of teenagers’ personality is a transitional period filled with storm and pressures, so it is necessary to set up their right ethics to make them have positive attitudes towards lives. Nowadays, there are changes in Taiwan’s cultures, society, economy, etc. Whether it has an effect on teenagers’ meaning of life is an issue which is worth discussing. At present, researches on teenagers’ meaning of life and Internet addiction are not so enough; the researcher hopes to conduct an in-depth study on Internet addiction and teenagers’meaning of life, and then probe into them intensively. According to the researcher’s observation, students’confusion about meaning of life is certainly related to Internet addiction. For them, Internet addiction not only has negative influnences on their academic performance and health of body and mind, but also is a concern to families and the society. If we can seek the reason for this and give them proper guidance strategies at the right moment, it will be believed that it’s beneficial for guidance effectiveness of students and the whole society. This study investigates the relevance between teenagers’ meaning of life and Internet addiction, and discusses how different sex, grades, academic performance, parenting styles, and family conditions affect teenagers’ meaning of life and Internet addiction. This study takes certain complete school in Hsinchu County as the object, and 485 junior and senior high students of 16 classes were selected from the school as the subjects of research. Based on the 485 students’ reaction to the ‘’Meaning of Life Scale” and ‘’ Internet Addiction Scale‘’, the researcher used Descriptive Statistical Analysis, T test, ANOVA, and Pearson product-moment correlation. The main conclusion of this study is the fact that there’s a negative correlation between teenagers’ meaning of life and Internet addiction. Besides, at present, teenagers’ senses of meaning of life conditions are at middle to high level; their Internet addiction conditions are at middle to low level. There isn’t a notable difference in teenagers’ meaning of life for teenagers with different sexes, but there is one in Internet addiction. There isn’t a marked difference in teenagers’ meaning of life and Internet addiction for teenagers in different grades. There is a significant difference in teenagers’ meaning of life and Internet addiction for teenagers with different academic performance, different parenting styles, and different family conditions. The study finally proposes some suggestions according to the research results for reference of future practical application.