In the new generation, with rapid advance in the technologies, the Internet has become an important means for almost everything in day-to-day life. Along with the advances, the dependency on internet has also raised rapidly leading to its addiction, most prevalent in the younger generations. Causing not only mental but physical impacts as well, which has made it necessary to find out the most affected people and its problematic effects of the people.
To find correlation between Insomnia and Emotional intelligence in Internet addicts.
The participants were screened for internet addiction (IA). The screening was done using Internet Addiction test scores, after that the addicts were assessed for Insomnia and Emotional intelligence using Insomnia Severity Index score (ISI) and Emotional intelligence test (EIT). A total of 127 subjects with mean age of 21.14 ± 2 (in years) were considered for the study.
350 subjects were screened for internet addiction out of which 127 met criteria. Continuous data is represented using t-test/ANOVA. Pearson correlation coefficient is used to study the correlation between continuous variables. The statistical significance was set at p < 0.05. Insomnia is found to be positively correlated and emotional intelligence negatively correlated with internet addiction.
Through this study we conclude that internet addiction can lead to problematic sleep in younger population, which can lead to stressful events. Therefore, it is necessary to identify students with potential Internet addiction and help them to manage it.
Internet addiction, Insomnia, Emotional intelligence, Localities, Hostilities, Under graduate, Post graduate
