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AGREEMENT ON TENDENCY OF STYLE ATTACHMENT OF TEENAGERS AND INTERNET ADDICTION
National Chengchi Unversity (TAIWAN)
About this paper:
Appears in: INTED2009 Proceedings
Publication year: 2009
Pages: 4956-4961
ISBN: 978-84-612-7578-6
ISSN: 2340-1079
Conference name: 3rd International Technology, Education and Development Conference
Dates: 9-11 March, 2009
Location: Valencia, Spain
Abstract:
The purpose of this study was to investigate the difference into style of attachment of teenagers' and Internet addiction degree, where does it discuss the dangerous factor which style of attachment causeing the tendency of internet assiction.

The study investigate 150 teenagers (16-18 years old) in Taiwan. They finished ' The style of attachment mesurement ', ' The mesurement of interpersonal attachment ', ' The mesurement of Internet addiction (Chinese) '. After the questionnaire is retrieved , inspecting the orientation that each student depends on the style (dismissing , preoccupied , secure ) one by one, and then analysising in ANOVA of SPSS statistics software.

The rate of recovery of questionnaire is 88% , deduct 2 invalid questionnaires. Total there were 130 samples altogether and were analysed. The result shows: The style of attachment that consistency indexes( )is 0.76; 12 of dissmissing style, 39 preoccupied style,58 secure styles;The dissmissing style becomes 51.17 indexes of Internet addiction, the preoccupied style becomes 52.15, the Secure style becomes 44.69.

The result of ANOVA analyses that it is apparent to reach(<.05), Using the comparison of Tukey after ANOVA , show the remarkable of preoccupied style and secure style in Internet addiction indexes.

Other finding of study , the male teenagers in Taiwan are on the high rate in the preoccupied style , secure teenagers appear low Inrternet addiction indexes, the dismissing style and preoccupied style depend on the potential factor that to succeed theInternet addiction.
Keywords:
attachment, attachment style, teenagers, internet addiction.