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KMID : 0607720090200020207
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Journal of Korean Community Nursing
2009 Volume.20 No. 2 p.207 ~ p.214
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The Effects of an Internet Addiction Prevention Program on Middle School Students
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Joo Ae-Ran
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Abstract
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Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of an Internet addiction prevention program on middle school students’ stress and Internet addiction.
Methods: This research adopted the non-equivalent control group pretest-posttest design, and was conducted with 40 middle school students who were selected through convenient sampling and assigned to an experimental group or a control group. Data were collected from September 5, 2007 to September 27, 2007, and analyzed using the SPSS/WIN program by frequency, x2-test, Fisher’s exact test, and t-test.
Results: The results of the experiment supported the hypothesis that the experimental group would have lower stress scores and Internet addiction scores than the control group.
Conclusion: After 8 sessions of the Internet addiction prevention program, it was found the program was effective to reduce stress and Internet addiction.
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KEYWORD
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Stress, Internet
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