Multimedia Addiction and its impact on adolescent’s personality
Journal Title: INDIAN JOURNAL OF MENTAL HEALTH - Year 2017, Vol 4, Issue 3
Abstract
Background: Multimedia addiction is a common and emerging problem seen in adolescents in all major cities in India. The present study sought to investigate multimedia addiction and its impact on adolescent’s personality. Methodology: This study involved 200 adolescent students (100 male and 100 female) studying in randomly selected higher secondary schools in Gorakhpur city. Four questionnaire were administered viz. Young’s Internet Addiction Test (YIAT 20), Bianchi and Philips Mobile Problem Use Scale, Lemmens Game Addiction Scale applied for measured to Multimedia addiction in respondents, whereas Costa and McCrae The Revised NEO Personality Inventory (NEO PI-R) was use for concise measure of the five major dimensions. Results: The result showed that 57% adolescents addicted to Multimedia and there was significant difference between addicted and non addicted personality dimensions among adolescents. Conclusions: Multimedia addiction as problem warrants further study in adolescents and larger multicentre studies in this regard are needed.
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Vandana Goswami, Divya Rani Singh
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- DOI 10.30877/IJMH.4.3.2017.285-292
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