A Study On Implicit Self-esteem Of Adolescence Internet User

Objective: To explore the relationship between self-esteem (explicit and implicit) and Internet addiction and provide a comprehensive theoretic precondition to the prevention and remedy of the Internet addiction.Method: 9 Internet addiction tendency subjects were sampled according to the results of Internet addiction scale, 17 normal persons were collected as control. Both groups received IAT, which was designed to measure implicit self-esteem, and explicit self-esteem measure (the Self-Esteem Scale).Result: 1.Like normal students, Internet addiction tendency students also had the significant implicit self-esteem effect. They tended to connect themselves with positive things.2.For explicit self-esteem, the two groups had no difference. The results were same under different standards of Internet addiction tendency.3.The implicit self-esteem of the Internet addiction tendency subjects had no difference with that of normal control. The results were same under different standards of Internet addiction tendency.4.In Internet addiction tendency subjects, implicit self-esteem and explicit self-esteem were two relatively dependent self-evaluation systems. The discrepancy between implicit and explicit self-esteem was different between Internet addiction tendency subject and normal control. In Internet addiction tendency subjects, their score of implicit self-esteem was higher than that of explicit, while in normal control the relation was reversel. The difference wasn't significant. The results were same under different standards of Internet addiction tendency.5.Implicit self-esteem effect and the discrepancy between implicit and explicit self-esteem were both different in grade. For explicit self-esteem, there was no significant grade difference.6.There was no significant sexual difference between the two groups.