Internet Addiction and Subjective Well-Being of University Students

In today's world technology have an enormous impact on the young generation. For youth, the Internet offers a number of risks along with a multitude of opportunities. In the present study internet addiction in context of social networking sites and subjective well-being of university students has been studied. The assumption of the present study was that "the one who are most addicted to the internet have poor subjective well-being whereas, the one who are less addicted have good subjective well-being" A sample of 100 university students (male & female both) was taken of age group 18-23 years from Varanasi. Participants were selected who are at least 18 years old, must have an internet access in personal mobile,computers,laptops,etc.and,must spent on an average two hours a day online for private purposes. Data have been analysed by using descriptive analysts, t-test, and coefficient of correlation. Findings indicated that level of Internet addiction is high among the university students and Internet addiction affects the subjective well-being of the students.