Internet addiction and its relation to satisfaction with life among a sample of secondary school students in Ris

Abstract

The present study aimed to identify the relationship of Internet addiction to life satisfaction on a sample of secondary school students in Alrass. In this study, the researcher used the relational descriptive method. The sample was randomly selected. The sample was 100 students, the researcher used tools such as: scale of Internet addiction designed by Sultan Ayed Farah al- Osaimi (2010), and the scale of life satisfaction designed by Majdi Mohammed al- Desouki (1998).

The researcher reached several results, the most important of which are:

1- There is a correlation between the scores of the Internet addiction scale and the total score of the scale of life satisfaction.

2- There are no statistically significant differences between the means of Internet addiction scale and for its dimensions according to the variable of educational achievement level.

3- There are no statistically significant differences between the means of Internet addiction scale and for its dimensions according to the variable of income.

4- There are statistically significant differences between the means of the degree of life satisfaction scale and its dimensions according to the variable of educational achievement level.

5- There are statistically significant differences between the means of life satisfaction and its dimensions according to the variable of income.