INFLUENCE OF INTERNET ADDICTION ON THE MENTAL HEALTH OF ADOLESCENTS

The present piece of research work is to study influence of Internet Addiction on the Mental health of Adolescents students. 100 college students comprised the sample for the study. Tools used to measure the above mentioned variables were Internet Addiction Test by Dr. Kimberly Young (1998) to measure Internet Addiction. It consists of 20 items that measures mild, moderate and severe level of internet addiction. Mental Health was measured by Mental Health Inventory by Dr. Jagdish and Dr. A.K. Srivastava. The major findings of the present study are a negative correlation of -0.456 has been found between these two variables. A significance difference has been found between the mental health of low and high internet user college students. A significance difference between the mental health of high internet user girls and boys college students at the 0.05 level of significance. A significance significant difference between the mental health of low internet user boys and girls college students at the 0.05 level of significance. furthermore it was found that no significant difference has been found between the mental health of high internet user college students in rural and urban areas and no significant difference has been found between the mental health of low internet user college students in rural and urban areas