A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF MENTAL HEALTH OF AMONG INTERNET ADDICTED AND NON-ADDICTED ADOLESCENTS
Abstract
Adolescence is the too much sensitive age of life. Mental Health is a vital component of any
healthy human life. Internet uses sometimes converts into addiction for adolescent. In the
present study researcher selected 120 adolescents selected (30 male internet adolescents, 30
female internet addicted adolescent, 30 male non-internet adolescents, 30 female non-internet
addicted adolescent) by purposive sampling technique. Researcher has used Internet Addiction
Test by Dr. Kimberly Young was used; and for assess mental health, Mental Health Battery
(2013 and revised in 2017) developed by A. K. Singh and Alpana Sen Gupta for collect
the data. The result shows that the there is significant difference in mental health level in
internet addicted and non-addicted adolescents.
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