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Relationship between Internet Addiction and Social Communication Skills among Students of Assiut University

Research Authors
Nadia Ebraheem Sayied ,Hussnia Shehata Mohamed , Reda Abd Elaal Thabet ,Neama Mohamed El-Magrabi
Lecturer of Psychiatric Nursing Faculty of Nursing Assiut University.Community Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Assiut University
Research Department
Research Journal
المجلة المصرية للتمريض
Research Member
Research Rank
2
Research Year
2013
Research Abstract

The number of people that use computers and internet has grown quickly, also changed our vision about the future. The internet is an integral part of modern life .the study aimed to explore the relationship between the internet addiction and social communication skills of students in Assiut University and identify types of internet addiction among practical and academic faculties. Descriptive design was used in carrying out this study. the internet addiction and social communication skills scale were used as instruments for data collection in this study the total sample size was 825students, the majority of the sample were females, and the minority were married. In addition it was found that, more than half of them from academic faculties, and the rest of them from practical faculties. Also there was statistically significant difference between internet addict and communication skills .Conclusion: The Internet use showed a significant difference between Sociodemographic data and internet addict. Therefore, addicted students are more interested to use internet many hours per day .There was a relationship between internet addict and lack of social communication skills.