On the relationship between usefulness & ease of use of it appliances and internet addiction Han Mihee* Dept. General Education, Namseoul University, 91 Daehak-ro Seonghwan-eup Sebuk-gu, Cheonan-si, Chungcheongnam-do, S. Korea *Corresponding Author: Mihee Han Dept. General Education, Namseoul University, 91 Daehak-ro Seonghwan-eup Sebuk-gu, Cheonan-si, Chungcheongnam-do, S.Korea Email: diaplus@nsu.ac.kr
Online published on 16 October, 2018. Abstract The central purpose of this research was to identify the relationship between the usefulness of IT appliances and internet addiction of college students. The research subjects consisted of a group of 156 students attending at N University located in Chonan, Choongnam Province. To investigate the issue under discussion, the current research utilized a scale of the usefulness of the use of IT equipment and a scale for internet addiction. Moreover, the following statistical analysis methods were employed for analysis of collected data: descriptive statistics, frequency analysis, exploratory factor analysis and correlation analysis. As a result, It was found that the difference in the mean between the usefulness (3.4205) and internet addiction (3.1963) was 0.2242. Of the group of four subfactors of internet addiction, the mean of virtual world-orientedness was the highest at 3.8429, whereas positive expectation was the lowest at 2.2692. A correlation analysis also found that there is no correlation between the two variables of the usefulness of IT appliances and internet addiction (and any of the four subfactors as well). Future researches are expected to produce insightful findings that would help college students make a better use IT appliances to let them grow as individuals and members of society as well. Top Keywords Usefulness, ease of use, IT appliances, internet addiction, college students. Top |