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EFFECTS OF INTERNET ADDICTION ON MARITAL ADJUSTMENT AND MENTAL HEALTH OF ADULTS

By: Mst. Sabiha Sultana, Abdur Rahman, Biplob Kumar Dey, Umme Kulsuma Rashid

Key Words: Adult people, Marital adjustment, Internet addiction, Mental health

JLES-Vol-18-No-P-9-17, December 2023.

Abstract

The present study aimed to investigate whether adult people’s marital adjustment and mental health can be predicted by internet addiction in relation to stages of adulthood, and family structure. The study was conducted on 360 adult people whose ages ranged between   20 and 70 years. They were selected purposively from different areas of the Chittagong district in Bangladesh. The Bangla version of the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12) (Sorcar and Rahman, 1989), the Dyadic Adjustment Scale (DAS) (Ilyas 1986), and the Internet Addiction Test (IAT) (Karim and Nigar 2014) were used to measure mental health, marital adjustment and internet addiction of adult people. The present study’s findings showed that people from early adulthood showed more internet addiction (F = 8.78, df = 2, p< 0.001) than in middle and late adulthood. People from nuclear families showed more internet addiction (t = 4.77, df = 358, p <0.001) than the joint families. Findings also indicated a significant negative correlation between internet addiction and marital adjustment (r = -0.46, p< 0.001); internet addiction and mental health (r = -0.29, p<0.001), and a positive correlation between marital adjustment and mental health (r = 0.39, p< 0.001). Finally, the results of regression analyses revealed that marital adjustment (β =.-0.46, t-value = -9.92) and mental health (β = -0.29, t-value = -5.72) were significant predictors of internet addiction.

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Mst. Sabiha Sultana, Abdur Rahman, Biplob Kumar Dey, Umme Kulsuma Rashid

EFFECTS OF INTERNET ADDICTION ON MARITAL ADJUSTMENT AND MENTAL HEALTH OF ADULTS

JLES-Vol-18-No-P-9-17, December 2023.

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