The Study Of Relationship Between Adolescents’ Subjective Well-being, Self-esteem, Self-control And Internet Addiction

It is more and more convenient for us to take advantage of the Internet in ourdaily lives. Internet brings entertainment to our lives, some problems follows as well.For instance, a number of adolescents show a growing tendency of Internet addiction.Behavior is considered as a manifestation of individual psychology. Internet addictionis thought as a pathological behavior, its causes may be correlated with thepsychological factors. Psychological well-being level may have certain correlationwith it.Objective: this study started with doing research about subjective well-being,self-esteem, self-control, and Internet addiction of adolescent students, in order tounderstand the level of subjective well-being, self-esteem, self-control, internetaddiction, and analyses related influencing factors; explore the relationship betweenpsychological factors (subjective well-being, self-esteem, self-control) and internetaddiction. We aim at getting the effects mechanism of psychological factors(subjective well-being, self-esteem, self-control) on internet addiction, andrecommending for the prevention and intervention of internet addiction.Method:1551participants were chose by sampling at random, and they wereinvestigated by subjective well-being scale, self-esteem scale, self-control scale andInternet addiction scale. The tool of data entry is Epidata3.1. Data analysis and modelbuilding are via SPSS18.0, AMOS18.0. Statistical methods include t-test, ANOVAanalysis, Chi-square test, correlation analysis, hierarchical regression and structuralequation modeling (SEM).Result: report rate of Internet addiction is5.48%(n=85), the rate of male is54.12%(n=46), and the female is45.88%(n=39). Adolescent score of Internetaddiction has a significant difference in gender, grade, single parent or not, familyincome per month, different level of subjective well-being, self-esteem, andself-control. Contribution rates of subjective well-being for self-esteem, self-control, internet addiction are23.6%,8.7%,6.5%, contribution rates of self-esteem,self-control for internet addiction are5.8%,10.7%, with the self-esteem, self-controlentered the regression equation in turn, function together, the contribution rate ofsubjective well-being to internet addiction gradually increased from6.5%to8.3%,14.3%, growth are1.8%,6.0%. During the mediation model of subjective well-beingand Internet addiction, the mediating effect ratio of self-esteem and self-controlfunction together to direct effect is67.59%, the mediating effect ratio of self-esteemto the direct effect is27.38%, and the ratio of self-control is40.21%.Conclusion: adolescent subjective well-being, self-esteem, self-control aresignificantly related with Internet addiction. Subjective well-being, self-esteem,self-control can significantly explain the internet addiction, self-esteem andself-control play important mediating roles in the relationship between adolescentsubjective well-being and Internet addiction. Their combined mediating effects aremore than partial effects.