Excessive Use of Internet and Development of Anorexia Nervosa Tendency in Adolescents

Abstract

Excessive internet use causes many types of psychological problems in adolescents such as social fears, aggression, lack of self-awareness, lack of communication skills, eating disorder etc. The main purpose of this research is to identify the impact of excessive use internet on the tendency of anorexia in adolescence. The level of internet addiction and gender has been included as an independent variable; while anorexia condition included as a dependent variable. The purposively sample of 60 boys and 60 girls have been selected form the schools of Gandhinagar city of Gujarat state.  The level of internet addiction and symptoms of anorexia were measured by Internet Addiction Test develop by Young and Anorexia Test developed by Vijaya Lakshmi Chouhan and Aditi Banerjee respectively. Hypotheses were tested by applying F test for the 2x2 factorial design. Results indicate that high level of internet addiction impacts the food habit of adolescence resulting anorexia and the gender differences also significantly found indicating that the girls have high condition of anorexia tendency than boys.