Internet presente, dependência eminente? um estudo com universitários

Abstract

The study focuses on the verification of the impacts caused by abuse or Internet addiction in students behavior Campus of UNIPAMPA in Sant’Ana do Livramento/RS. The research is characterized as a case study of descriptive divided into two stages, the quantitative first aimed at identifying the students' behavior profile on the internet through the use of a questionnaire, in the second step, qualitative were interviewed five students based questions on a script prepared for the purpose of observing the implications of excessive use of internet in their behavior. As for the results, the profile of the student participants of the research was characterized as young, with an average age of 25.7 years. Of these, 43% use a combination of smartphone and computer to access the internet. The presence of students with degree of dependency was confirmed by Internet results addiction test, created by Young (2011), although most of the sample has been classified as a "Normal", since 53% of the respondents were not considered internet dependent . As to the impact of the internet over the lives of the students interviewed were observed sleep disturbances, anxiety, wear family relationships and reduced performance at work when absent the internet.