Relationship Of Digital Literacy With Internet Addiction And Cyberloafing Among Senior Secondary School Students

Abstract

The present study has been undertaken to study the relationship of digital literacy with internet addiction and cyberloafing among senior secondary school students. The sample consists of 200 senior secondary school students (100 male and 100 female) were selected from CBSE & PSEB Schools of Amritsar District with purposive and random sampling technique. The data was collected by using standardized scale of Digital Literacy scale by Singh and Singh (2019), Internet Addiction Scale by Gulati, Kurisunkal and Bakliwal (2021) and Cyberloafing scale by Akbulut (2016). The data obtained was analysed statistically with the help of Mean, SD, t-ratio and ‘r’ and used to arrive at the following conclusions: (i) There exists no significant difference in the mean scores of digital literacy between male and female senior secondary school students (ii) There exists no significant difference in the mean scores of internet addiction between male and female senior secondary school students (iii) There exists no significant difference in the mean scores of cyberloafing between male and female senior secondary school students (iv) There exists no significant difference in the mean scores of digital literacy of senior secondary school students studying in CBSE and PSEB (v) There exists no significant difference in the mean scores of internet addiction of senior secondary school students studying in CBSE and PSEB (vi) There exists significant difference in the mean scores of cyberloafing of senior secondary school students studying in CBSE and PSEB (vii) There exists significant negative relationship between digital literacy and internet addiction among senior secondary school students (viii) There exists significant negative relationship between digital literacy and cyberloafing among senior secondary school students.