Study On The Relationship Between Internet Usage, Internet Addiction And Personality Traits Of University Students

With the rapid progress of Internet technology, the application of Internet has spreaded to all aspects of society. The psychological research of application of Internet has also become one of the emphasis of psychology academy abroad. Many relative research has revealed the Internet Addiction Disorder has caused series of negativeness to Internet users' work, study and social relationships. As the main body of net users, university and college students' surfing activities and Internet Addiction calls for much attention, which poses new topic for psychological researchers. That is, how to help Internet users, especially youth users to cultivate healthy Internet usage behavior, thus make Internet a tool for promoting the growth and development of individual and harmonious society.This article used university students Internet usage questionnaire survey, Internet addiction questionnaire survey, internal-external psychology control sources scales, UCLA loneliness scales. After the survey of 618 university students, we have conclusion as following:(1) The average duration of Internet usage of university students is 3 years. Occupation time in the week turns to be much. The main activities are net chatting, information browsing and games or killing time. There are differences between genders, birth places, majors and grades. (2) There are certain ratio of heavy Internet addictions or tendencies. Among addictive users there are differences between genders and single children or non-single-children. Males and single-child students have stronger tendency toward addiction than females and non-single- children. (3 )Obvious differences can be seen inonline act and surfing material between IAD group and non-IAD group. University student Internet Addiction usually appears as online game addiction, online pornography addiction and online communication addiction. (4) There are extensive mutual relationships between loneliness,psychology control sources and Internet addiction.Based on the research conclusion, precaution and correction of Internet addiction shall be approached from the 4 aspects of individual, family, university and society.