Internet Addiction and its Association with Depression Anxiety Stress and Well Being Among Young Adult College Students

Abstract

Internet has become very much integral part of human lives across the world and its easy access and newlinecheap availability allowed deep penetration but when the use is unmindful and exceeds the threshold, newlinethere is a possibility of developing addictive behaviours towards internet which is termed as Internet newlineaddiction and young adult college students aged 18 to 24 years are highly vulnerable to it. Therefore, it newlineis important to assess the level of internet addiction and its associated psychological factors in them. The newlinemain objective of this research is to study the prevalence of internet addiction and its association with newlinedepression, anxiety, stress and the well-being. newline newline