The Relationship Between Boredom And Impulsiveness Among Internet Addiction Students

This paper based on college students as the research object, around the relationship between Internet addiction, boredom tendency and impulsive, carried out a research into three :(1) compiled the questionnaire of college students’ boredom tendency, in order to provide a reliable measuring tool to further explore the relationship between Internet addiction and boredom.(2)used the Young’s "Internet addiction scale", the questionnaire of "college students’ boredom tendency" and the "BIS- 11 impulsiveness scale" as a research tool, Testing the relationship between Internet addiction, boredom tendency and impulsivity of college students, and testing the Internet addiction of college students’ boredom and impulse characteristics.(3) using event related potential technology, discuss the Internet addicts’ impulse characteristics. The subjects were screening by “Young’s Internet addiction scale",the internet addicted group and the control group were all 16 subjects,the experiments using simple gambling task paradigm, observe the subjects eeg changed under the condition of losing money and win money, explore the impulse characteristics of two kinds of subjects and their sensitivity to reward and punishment.Through the three research, We draw the following conclusion:(1)Questionnaire of college students’ boredom tendency contain negative emotions, personality aloof, self-control and social support this four dimensions. Questionnaire analysis shows that the questionnaire has good reliability and validity, Accord with the requirement of psychometrics, can be used as a research tool to test the boredom tendency of the college students.(2)Internet addiction of college students’ boredom or impulsivity was no significant difference between demographic data such as in gender, whether the one-child, family location, grade, etc. whether in boredom or in impulsivity. Internet addictions’ total score and scores on each dimension were significantly higher than the non-addictions.(3)College students in general, there were significant positive correlation on each dimension between Internet addiction, boredom and impulsivity.The negative emotion dimensions in Boredom has partial mediating effect between boredom and Internet addiction.(4) In the Simple gambling task,from the data of behavior, the addicts have lower sensitivity and they tend to choose the risk;From the data of EEG, the addicts evoke lower amplitude of FRN and higher P300 than the non-addicts, which shows that the addicts are more impulsive,they are less sensitive to punishing stimulus and more sensitive to reward stimulus.