Xu Hailing Psychological Factors of College Students’ Internet Usage / 中国心理卫生杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective: To explore the psychological factors of college students'internet usage. Method: Based on an open-end investigation, we got a questionnaire. 813 college students were surveyed by this questionnaire. Results:1.5% subjects can be defined as internet addiction disorder (IAD) according to Bread' IAD scale. Six factors were extracted by means of factor analysis, and the results indicated that the psychology factor of college students' Internet use could be a multifaceted nature. We did not find significant difference between user with IAD and common users.