Shanghai College Students' Internet Use Survey And Network Addiction Case Studies

Internet Addiction Disorder (IAD), which is a non-biochemical addiction, refers to the phenomenon that leads to the obvious damage to the person's psychological and social function because of the excessive use of Internet. Nowadays, Internet has gradually played an important role in students' everyday life. However, the excessive use of Internet brings serious unfavorable influence to some undergraduates.Take undergraduates in Shanghai as subjects, the paper makes a study of those students who are in the habit of netsurfmg and their IAD phenomenon by questionnaire surveys, interviews, case studies, etc. The purpose of questionnaire surveys and case studies is to comprehend the students' characteristics of Internet using, to find out the factors that lead to Internet Addiction Disorder, and to attempt some effective psychological intervention ways. The study discovers that: 1. Some characteristics of Internet like anonymity, entertainment, exchanging information promptly are important inducible factors that lead to IAD. 2. Most of the students take Internet as a supplementary tool for study and job-hunting, while 2.17 percent of students become Internet addiction. 3. IAD has seriously influenced the addicted students' study. Case studies show that those students commonly have the sense of inferiority, and also have less inside restraints. 4. Intervening the addicted by the cognitive therapies and behavior therapies can obviously relieve the anxiety of those students who stop netsurfing and let them return to a normalcy.According to the surveys and case studies, we have raised a factor model that leads to IAD: the characteristics of Internet, the social impediment and study pressure of the addicted students are all the superficial factors that lead to IAD. The essential factors are those psychological factors such as inside restraints, inferiority complex, etc. And the essential factors influence the addicted students by the superficial factors. For the ways that lead to IAD, we cannot differentiate what is primary from what is secondary. Different addicted students have the different addiction way. With the factor model, we have intervened the addicted individual through the cognitive therapies and behavior therapies to strengthen the undergraduates' inside restraints and to let them make a further understanding of Internet using, thus attempting to help them return to a normalcy. The paper also gives some suggestions to the higher schools' network construction: The school should pay more attention to the Internet addiction phenomenon, offer some related courses and give more psychological guidance to improve the students' immunity to IAD. For those addicted students, the school should bring the psychological guidance's initiative into full play to help those students extricate themselves from the dependent mentality to Internet.