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KMID : 0904520120310010153
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Health and Medical Sociology
2012 Volume.31 No. 1 p.153 ~ p.173
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The Relationship between Internet Use, Its Type and Depression in High School Students: Testing a Gender Difference
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Jun Shin-Hyun
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Abstract
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This study intends to explain the relationship between internet use and depression in high school students and considers the type of internet use and its difference across gender. Using data from Korean Youth Panel Survey, results show that internet use causes depression and that depression also causes internet use. Considering the type of internet use such as social relationship, entertainment, and information, it is found that internet use for social relationship increases depression, but internet use for entertainment and information has no effect on depression. Instead, results reveal that depression has positive effects on internet use for entertainment and information. In testing a gender difference, result shows that depression causes internet use in both male and female students, but that internet use causes depression in only female students. For female, internet use for social relationship increases depression. In addition, results show that depression has significant effects on internet use for entertainment and information in both male and female students.
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KEYWORD
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Internet use, Depression, Type of internet use, Gender difference
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