Subhankita Rath’s scientific contributions

This study has an aim to investigate the relationship between internet addiction and academic performance of university students. For this purpose, 267 undergraduate students were selected from different colleges affiliated with Sambalpur University. Internet addiction scale developed by Young (1998) was used to collect the data from the sample. The results of this study revealed that on an average 47.65 university students are internet addicted irrespective of their gender, streams of education and habitat. This study also revealed that academic performance of university students can be significantly predicted by internet addiction as the R 2 =.034 (3.4%). Gender and habitat were not significant predictors of internet addiction, but streams of education were significant predictors of internet addiction. With reference to gender and streams of education there is significant difference but with reference to habitat or residence there is no significant difference. There is also no significant difference in internet addiction due to the interaction between gender and streams of education, gender and habitat, streams of education and habitat, and among gender, streams of education and habitat.