Study On The Relationship Between Social Support And Internet Addiction Of College Students

The influence of the Internet has increased in recent years. This makes the psychological aspects of Internet use a key focus of psychological research. Many studies have indicated that Internet Addiction will bring users a series of negative effects on their jobs, studies and families. Thus, as the main users of internet, college students'behavior and the status of Internet Addiction obtain a great attention. How to help especially young Internet users developing their healthy Internet usage, and making the Internet an instrument for developing harmonious relationships? All these put forward new topics to psychological researches.This paper is to study relations among college student'behavior of Internet use, Internet addiction and social support from the perspective of both psychology and behavior, so as to guide users use Internet healthily in case of the negative influence of Internet use. This study is approached by Chinese Internet Addiction Scale and Social Support Scale. This Paper draws the following conclusion on the relationship between the the behavior of Internet use and motivation of Internet use, Internet addiction, social support according to paper investigation. First, most undergraduate Internet users in China use Internet for searching information, contacting with acquaintance, and for relaxation. The services they use frequently are E-mail, information search, chat, game, and multi-media entertainments; Second,there are a great many students who have serious Internet Addiction or the tendency to Internet Addiction; Third, there are gender differences and school experience differences in Internet use and motive, and school experience differences in Internet addiction; Fourth, there is a close relationship between motive of using Internet, network behavior and Internet Addiction; Fivth,there is a significantly negative correlation between social support and Internet Addiction.