Internet addiction and its impact on physical, social, and health of secondary school students in Shebin El Koum City in Menoufiya Governorate

Document Type : Original Article

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Menoufia University Information Center

Abstract

The study aimed to identify the health, psychological and social damages
of internet addiction among secondary school students, through the identification
of the damages of Internet addiction on adolescence and its social, psychological
and health effects on them. The most important results and recommendations
reached by the researcher through the field study in public secondary schools in
Shebin El-Kom city, Monofiya governorate, Egypt.
The Results of the study
The researcher reached many results as follows:-
1. 1-The main causes of addiction to the students of secondary education for
the Internet Monofiya, the following respectively: entertainment and play,
lack of control parents to me, a sense of vacuum time, ease of dealing
with others through the Internet, sense of comfort while using the Internet,
to escape from the responsibility to study and study, not My interest on
the part of the family and the community around me, to escape from my
problems surrounding the family, rather than going out
2. 2- The largest percentage of students addicted to the Internet in the age
group of 16 years reached 102 respondents, representing 56.7% of the
total male and female population in the study sample.
3. .3- The most important negative aspects of the internet came between his
students and secondary education students in Monofiya, respectively:
lack of supervision, porn sites, addiction to sit for long periods, violation of
rights, falling into unknown relationships, exposure to fraud and fraud.
4. 4- came the most important health damage caused by Internet addiction
among education students secondary Monofiya: pain the eyes of the most
difficult and the most first health damage caused by the use of the Internet
among students at a percentage of 60.5%, followed by insomnia and
sleep deprivation, a percentage of 50.4%, followed by fatigue and fatigue
by 49.7 %, mother bone by 45.7%, and diseases of the brain and nerves
30.2%, heart disease by 22.7%, and finally skin diseases by 21.5% of the
total sample.

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