Internet addiction and adolescent's school achievements
| Author | Irma Leka |
| Position | University of Tirana, Faculty of Social Sciences Tirana, Albania |
| Pages | 60-69 |
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, 2019
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cademic Journal o
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Business,
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dministration, Law and Social Science
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nt
e
rn
e
t
addic
t
io
n
a
n
d
adolesce
nt’
s
school
achie
v
e
m
e
nt
s
PhD
I
rm
a
L
e
k
a
U
niversity o
f
Tirana, Faculty o
f
Social Sciences Tirana,
A
lbania
Abs
tr
ac
t
T
he main purpose of this research is to evaluate the relationship between the level o
f
i
nvolvement of adolescents ages 12-15 in the virtual society and the e ects that this society
c
auses on academic performance. The study included a sample of 378 subjects from 20
public elementary schools in the Tirana city, which belonged to the 12-15 year old age group.
T
he student sample was chosen by means of Sample Random Sampling Techniques. For
t
he realization of this study, a quantitative questionnaire was used. The questionnaire was
d
esigned to explore and measure the impact of virtual society on academic performance. The
r
eal study is that with the increase in internet usage, when the infl uence of internet used for
a
cademic purposes is ignored, the academic average decreases
.
I
n the regression analysis, it has also resulted that the infl uence of
I
nternet dependency on
a
cademic performance explains up to 29% the change in the academic average.
Studying school engagement as a multidimensional construct, as an interaction between
t
he time spent learning, will help identify the particular engagement as well as enhance our
understanding of the mechanisms through which they act. Finally it can be argued that the
fi ndings of this study can help the structures of Pre-
U
niversity
E
ducation
I
nstitutions to adapt
e
cient techniques and methods in order to increase the academic performance of students
i
n sch
oo
ls.
Ke
y
words: virtual society, disinterest, adolescent, academic performance
.
I
ntr
oduc
t
io
n
T
he im
p
ortance o
f
this stud
y
lies in the abilit
y
to address
p
roblems related to the
i
m
p
act o
f
virtual societ
y
on academic
p
er
f
ormance. Due to the conse
q
uences that
v
irtual societ
y
brings to disinterested learning
f
or adolescent, it is necessar
y
to stud
y
and anal
y
ze them.
I
n this wa
y
, the stud
y
aims to identi
fy
and anal
y
ze the level o
f
i
nvolvement o
f
adolescents aged 12-15
y
ears old with the virtual societ
y
and the
i
m
p
act it has on the interest o
f
learning, giving a
p
icture o
f
the challenges and dangers
th
a
t c
o
m
e
f
r
o
m th
e
s
e
s
o
c
ie
t
ie
s.
T
o achieve maximum results in education re
q
uires a great deal o
f
commitment
f
rom
s
tudents, b
y
the
f
act that those who will receive knowledge that will hel
p
them
throughout li
f
e.
E
ducation is the best wa
y
to kee
p
the generations alive and virtual
s
ocialization, having a signi
fi
cant im
p
act on motivation in learning, directl
y
a
ects
the ac
q
uisition o
f
their knowledge.
I
n this regard, a s
p
ecial
p
lace is the
p
rovision o
f
academic su
pp
ort, involving the commitment, to the creation o
f
a learning communit
y
and the creation o
f
academic
f
acilities that a ract a ention to academic learning and
a
c
ade
m
i
c
a
c
hie
v
e
m
e
nt
s
.
For this reason, knowledge o
f
technolog
y
has become
p
art o
f
almost all 9
y
ears o
f
e
ducation since 2008.
I
n 2005, The Ministr
y
o
f
E
ducation, together with
U
NDP, started
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