Internet Addiction and its Implications on Emotional Stability and Academic Success among Technical Students in Ogun State

Abstract

The proliferation of internet-enabled devices has led to growing concerns about problematic usage patterns, particularly among students in technical education who require significant focus for both theoretical learning and practical skill acquisition. Against this backdrop, the study investigated the impacts of internet addiction on emotional and academic success of technical students in Ogun State. Multi stage sampling techniques was adopted, simple random sampling techniques was used to select 70 students from each of technical colleges that were selected from each of the three senatorial districts in Ogun state. A constructed questionnaire “Internet addiction on Students’ Emotion and Performance Scale” (r= .75), was used to collect data which were analysed using percentage, t-test and ANOVA at 0.05 level of significance. The findings of the study showed that there was significant effect of internet addiction on academic success of technical students in Ogun State with (M 15.861 P= .000). In conclusion this study identified that Internet addiction poses a substantial threat to the emotional well being and academic achievement of technical students in Ogun State. It was recommended that stakeholders in education sector should legislate against the use of phone in schools and parents should monitor their wards excessive use of internet.