QUALITY OF LIFE, SELF-ESTEEM AND SELF-EFFICACY OF INTERNET ADDICTED AND NON-ADDICTED COLLEGE STUDENTS

ABSTRACT Internet addiction is when a person has a compulsive need to spend a great deal of time on the internet, to the point where other areas of life (such as relationships, work or health) are allowed to suffer. The person become dependent on using the internet and needs to spend more and more time online to achieve the same ‘high’. The present study is aimed to compare the Quality of Life, Self-esteem and Self-efficacy of internet addicted and non-addicted college students. In the present study sample consisted of 200 undergraduate college students, age-range from 17 to 24 years from different faculties of D.E.I. Dayalbagh, Agra. Those students who have achieved lower score on internet addiction scale were called ‘non-addicted’, and those students who have achieved higher score were called ‘internet addicted’. Finally 50 internets addicted and 50 internet non-addicted college students were randomly selected in the sample. Internet Addiction Test by Young (2000), Quality Of Life by WHO (1996), Coopersmith’s Self-Esteem Inventory by Coopersmith (1975) and Self-Efficacy Scale by Matto and Malhotra (1998) were used. Results indicated that there are significant difference in the self-esteem and self-efficacy of internet addicted and non-addicted college students. Both the groups were also significantly differed with each other on the various measures of their quality of life scores.