Influence Of Sensation Seeking, Parenthood And Peer Relationship Of Middle School Students On Internet Addiction

Along with the extensive prevalence of internet, Internet addiction had become one of the information age's topics on psychological counseling and therapy. Internet addiction had become the more serious social issue which must be solved right now. Many studies of home and abroad had confirmed that internet addiction had relations with people's personality traits. As one of the personality traits which always would seek fancy and complicated experience, sensation seeking would have relations with internet addiction. However, as one of the most complicated social phenomenon, internet addiction was influenced by many sides of factors such as physiological, psychological and social complication. In our study, theory that described above would be used as the foundation and sensation seeking would be treated as a cut point. We would synthetically investigate the influence of sensation seeking, parenthood and peer relationship on internet addiction and construct the mental model of internet addition. This may be innovative oppions in our study.1350 participants were from 4 grades, including the Grade 1 and Grade 2 of junior high school and the Grade 1 and Grade 2 of senior one. They were asked to accomplish the questionnaires strictly in accordance with guideline words. The questionnaire contents include five scales such as sensation seeking scale, peer relationship scale, parent-adolescent conflict; parent-adolescent cohesion and internet addiction scale. We managed the collected data and gained the conclusions as follows:1) Total scores of internet addiction scales had remarkable correlation with the scores of sensation seeking scales. The factors such as disinhibition, experience seeking and boredom susceptibility also had significant correlations with scores on internet addiction scale. However, Factors as thrill and adventure seeking had no significant correlation with them. Disinhibition and experience seeking were positively related to internet addiction scores.2) Disinhibition, factor of sensation seeking, was a mediate variable between playing together and internet addiction. It played a partial-mediated effect.3) Modulation effect of parenthood was significant. Parent-adolescent cohesion debased the intension between sensation seeking and internet addiction. And that parent-adolescent conflict built up their relation.4) Synthetically investigating the influence of sensation seeking, parenthood and peer relationship on internet addiction, we used disinhibition, parent-adolescent conflict, and experience seeking and playing together as the base of model. Every index of model accorded with the standard criterion. All these showed that the model we erect had a good agreement with the observed data.The innovative points of the research lie in the follow two sides:1)We developed the sensation seeking scales for middle school students. This scale had higher reliability and validity.2) In our study, we synthetically used the quantitative and qualitative methods. We constructed a influencing model of internet addiction to investigate the influence of parentship, peer relationship and sensation seeking.We'll enlarge the samples in the following study and conduct some follow-up studies to the severe ones of internet addictions to try to find out the mental mechanism of internet addiction.