العلاقة بين التوافق النفسي و سوء استخدام الإنترنت لدى طلاب المرحلة الجامعية الكويتيين

Abstract EN

The study aimed at monitoring and interpreting the relationship between the misuse of the Internet and the level of psychological Adaptation.

It was conducted on a random sample of (194) students of the psychology department at the Faculty of Basic Education in Kuwait.

The scale of Internt misuse and the Scale of psychological Adaptation were used as data collection tools.

The study revealed that the average sample score on the Internet misuse scale is close to half of the total score.

There are no statistically significant differences between the sample groups by age, housing, Academic year, parental pattern (P >0.05), but the Internet is more misuse by females compared to males, Bilateral interactions between the independent variables did not have an effect on the Internet Misuse (p> 0.05) For the psychological adaptation, the study revealed the relative increase of the student's score as the average score of respondents is equal to three-quarters of the total score.

There are no significant differences between the sample groups in terms of psychological adaptation (P> 0.05).

The effect of bilateral interaction between these variables had no effect on the psychological adaptation score (p> 0.05), except for the interaction between sex and parental pattern (p <0.05), Adaptation was found to be low of those belonging to single-parenting families, and there were no differences between the group of females belonging to single parent families and the group of female members of bipolar families.

Regarding sample as a whole, there was no correlation between psychological Adaptation and misuse of the Internet (p> 0.05).

Psychological adaptation was not affected by the bilateral interaction between the level of Internet misuse and gender, age, housing, school year, family pattern and academic achievement.