TITLE OF THE MODULE: QUANTITATIVE METHODS FOR COMPUTER

TITLE OF THE MODULE: QUANTITATIVE METHODS FOR COMPUTER



TITLE OF THE MODULE: QUANTITATIVE METHODS FOR COMPUTER

Introduction

The 21st 100 years pledges to be a digital era when technologies, particularly the Internet will have a deep leverage on every day life. The Internet has currently altered our life tremendously, and the advantages conveyed about by such a mighty device are conspicuous to all. Nevertheless, numerous investigations have proposed that persons may use the Internet addictively and that this can use hurtful consequences on persons, changing their communal demeanour, customs and natural forces in a contradictory way ([Chen et al., 2004], [Stanton, 2002] and [Young, 2004]).

Researchers revising the difficulties associated to Internet use have taken up distinct terminologies for example Internet addiction, Internet addiction disorder, Internet dependence, awkward Internet use, or pathological Internet use to recount the contradictory consequences of unwarranted Internet use on individual inhabits. Young (1996) has connected unwarranted Internet use to DSM-IV criteria (American Psychiatric Association, 1994) and advised it a behavioral addiction alike to pathological gambling. She distinuishes Internet addiction as an impulse-control disorder that mostly engages psychological dependence on the Internet (Young, 2004). Although there is no benchmark delineation to designated day, the phenomenon is routinely conceptualized as the compulsive demeanour and cognitions affiliated with Internet use which outcomes in assessed distress in every day life.

Increased concern in Internet addiction has provoked the development of devices like the Internet Addiction Test (Young, 1998a), the Pathological Internet Use scale (Morahan-Martin & Schumacher, 2000), and the Generalized Problematic Internet Use Scale (Caplan, 2002) for considering Internet use behavior. To better realise the phenomenon, it is vital to set up the validity and reliability of such instruments. This study tried to assess one of the instruments: Young's (1998a) Internet Addiction Test (IAT).

Young and her aides have finished many of work on characterising Internet addiction (Yellowlees & Marks, 2007), and the IAT is one of the early diagnostic levels that has been developed. Although the IAT was developed 10 years before, it is still engaged in latest investigations to enquire significant phenomena such as the connection between distinct types of addictions (Pallanti, Bernardi, & Quercioli, 2006), psychiatric comorbidity.

Research Design The research is based on secondary data collection. The data is extracted from various journals, articles and books. Secondary study recounts data accumulated through publications, publications, announced newspapers, and other non-human sources. This kind of study does not engage human subjects.

The research set about utilised is qualitative. Qualitative research is much more subjective than quantitative research and uses very distinct methods of collecting information which could be both prime and secondary. As currently cited this study selects the lesser method. The nature of this kind of research is exploratory and open-ended.

This kind of research is often less costly than surveys and is exceedingly productive in acquiring information. It is often the procedure of alternative in instances where quantitative measurement is not required.

 

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