This research attempts to investigate the psychological characteristics of the young students based on a quantitative comparison of the self-esteem and self-harmony of 104 non-Internet users, 131 occasional Internet users and 120 regular users among the young students. The research indicates that young students with different frequencies of Internet surfing do not show a significant difference in terms of self-esteem and self-harmony. To further investigate the influence of the Internet on the students, a further research is conducted by breaking the students into three groups -frequent Internet users, occasional Internet users and non-internet users. The result indicates that the self-harmony of frequent Internet users shows a sharp difference in terms of school and grade, the self and the unharmony of show a sharp difference in terms of school, grade and sex, and that the self-esteem and the two dimension - the flexibility and rigidity of self-harmony show no difference in terms of school, age and sex; the self-harmony and all dimensions of occasional Internet users show no significant difference, the self-esteem of occasional Internet users show no significant difference in terms of school and grade but show significant difference in terms of sex; the self-harmony and all dimensions of the non-Internet users show no significant difference, the self-esteem of the non-Internet users show no significant difference in terms of grade and sex, and the self-esteem of the non-Internet users show significant difference in terms of school. The research also includes related and regression analysis of the self-esteem and self-harmony of the student with different Internet access. The results of the research prompt us to summarize and reflect dialectically on Internet issues, so that the Internet will become a factor contributing to the mental development of the students and we can take different approaches to guide different students with different Internet access.
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