Abstract:
This research was carried out to measure the relationship of self esteem and
internet addiction among adolescents. The idea being that there are adolescents
falling victim to this behavioral addiction and losing out on being productive in
society and life (Biahn, Suzanne & Markovich, 2002). The hypothesis being that a
negative correlation will exist between self esteem and internet addiction. A
snowball method of sampling was used on college lsl year students. This gave 64
respondents, consisting ol 19 females and 45 males between the age ranges of 15
to 25. The Rosenberg (Rosenberg, 1965), selfesteem scale and a modified internet
addiction test to meet the requirements of the present study were used to score the
sample. Thus the hypothesis was rejected. The results showed a weak correlation
of .066 with a significance level score of .607 between self esteem and internet
addiction. Conclusions and recommendations are given at the end.
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