Research On The Relationship Between Junior High School Students' Peer Relationships And Internet Usage

With the development of society, the Internet becomes more and more popular, and the wrong use of the Internet is also a phenomenon which draws gradually people's attention. This paper takes the junior middle school students as the research object, and adopts the adolescents' Internet use preference questionnaire, the adolescent Pathological Internet use scale "and" children and adolescents peer relationship scale "in order to use questionnaire to know junior high school students peer relationships and the situation of Internet use. 630 junior high school students that from Nanchang Honggutan New District Experimental School, green bridge middle school and Liantang a galaxy affiliated schools are random ly selected and requested to fill in questionnaire. 595 valid questionnaires are recovered, questionnaire effectiveness rate is 94.44%.Four problems are discussed and analyze as follow. First, the general situation and characteristics of Internet use about junior high school students and teenagers. Second, the general situation and characteristics of the adolescents' peer relationships.Third, the correlation analysis about the adolescents' peer relationships and Internet use. Fourth, the relationship between adolescents' peer relationships and Internet use and impact and prediction effect that the former has influence on the latter. The collected data are analyzed and the results are as follows:(1) Junior high school students' Internet use is better, but prominence dimension and mood change dimensions is higher in the six dimensions of PIU, which junior high school students' Internet use education still cannot be ignored.(2) The entertainment dimension is the highest, and the information acquisition takes second place, and the information exchange is the lowest among the three dimensions of Internet users' preference. It shows that the main purpose of the Internet use is to get entertainment and relax.(3) Junior high school students' peer relationships exists significant differences in grade of demographical variables. First grade of junior high school students' peer relationships significantly is better than the second and third grade students, and significant difference is not existed in demographic variables of gender, whether the only child and family type.(4) PIU and its various dimensions of junior high school students have significant positive correlation with information exchange preferences and entertainment preferences, and are not significantly related to information access preferences among the three dimensions of Internet use preference.(5) PIU and its various dimensions of junior high school students have a significant positive correlation with peer relationships, that is, the worse the junior high school students' peer relationships are, the more easily will poor Internet use are caused.(6) Scores of each dimension among junior high school students' Internet use preference have significant positive correlation with peer relationships, that is, the worse the junior high school students' peer relationships are, the more will the use of Internet are preferred.(7) Regression analysis on junior high school students' peer relationships and the use of Internet shows that the peer relationships of junior high school students have positive prediction effect on each dimension among PIU and three dimensions among Internet use preference; Preference of information exchange among PIU of Internet usage has significant positive predictive effect on PIU, tolerance, compulsive Internet access, social comfort; While Internet entertainment preference of the junior high school students has significant positive predictive effect on PIU and various dimensions; Internet use information gain preference has a significant negative predictive function on PIU, salience, tolerance, compulsive Internet access, social comfort and negative consequences.