A Study on Adolescent's Level of Internet Addiction by Their Perceived Relationships with Parents.

청소년이 지각한 부모자녀 관계변인이 인터넷 중독에 미치는 영향

The purpose of this study was to find general trends of internet addiction tendency in adolescence and to analyze the effects of perceived relationships of the adolescents with their parents. The SPSS 10.0 for Windows was used to analyze data obtained through 217 middle school students in Gwang-ju. The results were as follows: ⑴ Degrees of relationships of the adolescences with their parents were median and internet addiction tendency were slightly lower than median. ⑵ Internet addiction tendency showed significant differences according to communication effectiveness. conflict, intimacy by their received relations with parents. ⑶ Internet addiction tendency was influenced by communication effectiveness, conflict by their received relations with parents.