الإدمان على الإنترنت و علاقته بالتوافق النفسي لدى طلبة جامعة السلطان قابوس-عمان

Abstract EN

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between Internet addiction and psychological adjustment by using a sample of (290) undergraduate students from the Faculty of Education, Sultan Qaboos University, (150) females and (140) males were distributed randomly.

The researcher used Internet addiction scale and psychological adjustment scale after its validity and reliability to answer the hypotheses of the study.

Means and standard deviations, person’s relational coefficients and T-test were used.

The results of the study indicated that there is a negative correlation between Internet addiction and Psychological adjustment.

The level of Psychological adjustment is lower among the internet addicted than non-addicts ones.

There were significant differences between males and females in the level of Internet addiction.

Internet addiction is higher among males.

There were no significant differences between males and females in the level of psychological adjustment.

The findings of this study indicated that there were some recommendations according to the study results which may develop students coping style with Internet addiction, and may increase developing social communication skills, which in turn would help in preventing psychological adjustment.