Survey and analysis on anxiety and depression of the students with internet addiction in vocational college and social support

Objective To explore the anxiety and depression of the students with internet addiction in vocational college and social support in order to provide a theoretical basis for early intervention.Methods An investigation on 775 vocational college students from the first and second grade of the two vocational colleges in a city was conducted by the questionnaire of student internet and related factors,internet addiction assessment scale,self-rating depression scale(SDS),self-rating anxiety scale(SAS) and social support rating scale(SSRS).Results The internet addiction rate of vocational college students was 9.16%.Anxiety of the students with internet addiction accounted for 74.65% abnormal.Anxiety of the students with non-addiction accounted for 26.06% abnormal.The depression of student with addiction was higher than that of non-addicted students(P0.01).The social support and objective support,subjective support and support utilization for students with internet addiction were lower than those for students with non-internet addiction(P0.01).The students in internet addiction group received lower social support than the students in non-addicted group.Conclusion The anxiety and depression of the students with internet addiction are higher,and the social support for them is lower.