Effect Of Parenting Styles And Personality Traits On Internet Addiction Among Adolescents

Abstract

Internet has become the most widespread and versatile technology in the world. People of all ages rely on the Internet to satisfy their different needs such as learning, entertaining, socializing, banking and shopping. With the advancement in the technology, the usage, speed, interactivity, and access to internet over the past decade have a tremendous increase. With this tremendous increase in the internet usage, the one specific age group that seem to be more prone towards developing a problem with the internet are the adolescents. The elevated usage of the internet by this age group may have exposed them to an unprecedented risk of Internet addiction which has harmful psychological and behavioral effects on the user. The concept of Internet addiction was first coined by Goldberg (1996) as a pathology, a disorder, an overuse of this technology, including a wide range of behaviours and impulse-control . This study aimed to synthesize previous findings by investigating the effect of parenting styles and personality traits on Internet addiction among adolescents of urban Ghaziabad. A sample of 300 adolescents of urban Ghaziabad was collected wherein, 150 adolescents suffered from Internet addiction and 150 were Non-addicted. newline