Internet Addiction and Its Relationship to the Identity Problem of Secondary School Students

Abstract

Research Goals:

The current research aims to identify:

1. The level of online addiction among secondary school students.


2. The level of online addiction among secondary school students according to the gender variable (male - female).


3. The level of identity crisis among middle school students.


4. The level of identity crisis among secondary school students according to the gender variable (male - female).


5. The correlation between online addiction and identity crisis among secondary school students.

The researchers built means to measure both addiction to the Internet and the identity crisis through the students' response to the paragraphs that have been used to measure this goal and extracted the cykometric characteristics of the parameters such as honesty, persistence and discrimination.

Results

The following results have been shown:

1. The results indicate that the research sample has a high level of addiction to the Internet


2. The results showed that the male sample had more Internet addiction than females


3. The results showed that the research sample had an identity crisis


4. The results show that males have a more identity crisis than females


5. The results indicate that there is a positive correlation between addiction to the Internet and identity crisis.