The Internet Addiction Of College Students And Its Relationship To Their Alienation

The Internet had played an important role in people's daily life. It brought benefice to people such as convenient information exchange and free self -exposure, but it also brought harmful things such as Internet addiction.Taking the college students as participants, the research explored the internet usage of college students and the relationship between Internet addiction and alienation by questionnaire and interview. The Internet usage of all participants was the first part of the research, followed by the Internet addiction of college students, and the relationship between Internet addiction and alienation. At last, quantitative study was supplemented and verified by two Internet addiction cases. The results of the study indicated:1) Male students spent much more time on the Internet each week than female students; the seniors spent much more time than the freshmen. Collecting information, keeping contact with family and friends and other people, entertainment, studying and receiving different kinds of knowledge were main purposes for students to use the Internet; The more frequently used functions of Internet were chatting, Word Wide Web and E-mail.2) Students who got much higher scores in the Chinese Internet Addiction Scale (CIAS) were different from students who got much lower scores in CIAS in Internet use. The former preferred to using the Internet for the purposes of entertainment, wasting time, playing on line games, making Personal Homepage, seeking sexual information, acting roles those were different from their real ones, and the latter preferred to using Internet for the purposes of study and receiving different kinds of knowledge. The former also preferred to functions such as on line games and virtual reality compared with the latter.3) The trend of Internet addiction was different in sex and grade. In general, male students exhibited more severe Internet addictive behaviors than female students; the sophomores exhibited more severe Internet addictive behaviors than freshmen. The male students in grade two got the highest scores in CIAS, but the female's trend was more balanced and it almost had no change. The sophomores also got the highest scores in the Alienation scale.4) There was significant correlation between the Internet addiction and the alienation of college students. Internet addiction had an significant positive correlation with the sense of alienation, sense of interpersonal alienation, sense of constraint, sense of meaninglessness, sense of powerlessness, sense of emptiness, sense of self-dissociation and sense of culture-dissociation, but it did not had significant correlation with the sense of nature alienation. Compared with students who got much lower scores in CIAS, students who got much higher scores in CIAS felt much stronger sense of alienation, sense of interpersonal alienation, sense of constraint, sense of meaninglessness, sense of powerlessness, sense of emptiness, sense of self-dissociation and sense of culture-dissociation, but they felt almost equal sense of nature alienation.Based on the above information, the researcher came to such conclusions: grade two was a particular period for college students, during that time, their mental health should be paid more attention to; the relationship between Internet addiction and alienation was worth researching more deliberately.