A Study of the Relationship among College Students Negative Emotion, Metacognition, and Internet Addiction

• Main Authors: Yi-ching Han, 韓宜靜
• Other Authors: none
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2011
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/74430803455833638564

碩士 === 國立臺南大學 === 諮商與輔導學系碩士班 === 99 === The main purpose of this study was to explore the relationships among negative emotion, metacognition and internet addiction of southern-area college students. Through purposive sampling, the questionnaires retrieved 564 college students. The measure tools used in this study include “Loneliness Scale”, “Social Anxiety Tendency Questionnair”, “Chen Internet Addiction Scale” , “Tung’s Depression Inventory for College Students” and “Metacognitions Questionnaire” . Methods of data analysis are factor analysis, Cronbach’ analysis, descriptive statistics, and structural equation modeling. The main findings are as follows: 1.College students’ negative emotion, maladaptive-metacognition and internet addiction are normal tendency. 2. negative emotion will directly influence metacognition and internet addiction. 3. metacognition has partially meditative effect between negative emotion and internet addiction. According to the findings above, this study provided some suggestions to counselors, and the future researchers.