The Relationship between Mobile Internet Addiction and Parental Control
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Research on the relationship between mobile internet addiction and parental control has conducted survey with the sample populations of 400 Thai youths aged between18-21 yrs. who lives with parents. The purpose is to study the relationship of parental role and the addiction of mobile internet. The type of addictions measure per day are: Hours of Social Media usage, Game hours, Number of hours searching the net, Number of hours of reading on the net, and Number of hours of mobile phone talk. The statistics used in relationship analysis is Chi-Square. The study indicated that the roles of parents were correlated with most of Internet addiction activities at significant moderately level and lower. The highest moderate relationship are between parental content control and activity in mobile phone talk per day and so the relationships between parental time control and game hours. The suggestion from the research is that parents are still important in reducing the risk of Internet addiction in youth by implementing with other methods and getting some advices from a psychologist. The result could be used to construct the identification/ prevention/ treatment model for the addict and used as a guideline for understanding and solving such problems.
Keywords- Parental Control; Internet Addiction; Thai Youth; Addict; Treatment;
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