INTERNET ADDICTION DISORDER AMONG LATE ADOLESCENCE

Abstract

Internet addiction disorder (IAD) is a condition characterized by excessive use of the internet to an extent that has detrimental consequences for a person’s daily life. After the onset of Covid pandemic, our lifestyles have changed significantly and the reliance on gadgets for education and work has become the way of life. As teenagers are often in conflict with parental authority and norms of society, the developmental effects can lead to a series of defence mechanisms and an increased risk of emotional crises, mood changes and behavioural alteration, which they attempt to fight through by withdrawal from social contact, aggression and addictive behaviour. Our study is mainly to analyse on the prevalence of IAD among this vulnerable group of late adolescence.