Impact of Internet Use on Behaviour, Wellbeing and Development of Urban Adolescents in Rajasthan

Agency : ICMR

The objective of the study was to assess the gratifying factors for adolescents that result in the consistent use of social networking sites and other commonly accessed websites on the internet. The study also aimed to understand the perspective of teachers, parents and cyber cafe owners on the use of the internet by adolescents. The study had started in July 2011. Five districts of Rajasthan viz. Jodhpur, Udaipur, Kota, Ajmer and Jaipur, were identified. The team used both quantitative and qualitative tools to collect the primary data from students (schools and colleges), parents, teachers and cyber café owners. Software package used for the study was developed by the IT department of IIHMR, Jaipur. The report of the study has been finalized and submitted to the agency.

The key findings from the study illustrates that adolescents spent a quality time on the internet particularly on social network, playing computer games, downloading music and movies and surfing and only one-third of the boys used it within limits whereas the majority used it excessively which could lead to internet addiction. It was also found that almost half of the boys and one-fourth of the girls encountered pornographic content. The perception of parents, teachers and cyber café owners was also recorded. The data revealed that most parents were worried about the children’s academic performance, and their encounter with sexually explicit images, videos and adolescent’s increase in knowledge about self-harm, suicide, anorexia.

The Internet being the most cost and time efficient medium to gather any kind of information, its need cannot be denied for any age group, but the problem arises when the usage goes beyond being need centered and hence a few recommendations were reported which would have implications for policy making.



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