Study on Internet Addiction Disorder among College Students and its Influence on Interactive Anxiety

Objectives To find out the Internet addiction of college students in Lanzhou city in order to investigate and study its impact on college students' behavior and psychological status and to provide the basis for Internet addiction prevention and intervention.Methods 1 900 college students of Lanzhou city were chosen through the method of stratified cluster sampling.All the subjects were evaluated by the Internet Addiction Scale,Interaction Anxiety Scales(IAS),etc.Results The incidence of Internet addiction in the college students in Lanzhou city was 11.07%,Internet addiction tendencies accounted for 10.46% of the total.The students that were addicted to the Internet or tended to be Internet-addicted showed more serious interaction anxiety than those who are not Internet-addicted.The college students who used the network on the purpose of game,chat and shopping were more likely to have communicative anxiety than others.Conclusions The behaviors of using the internet and Internet addiction have a negative influence on students' psychology.More time and focus in communicating with others and keep the frequency of using Internet in an appropriate range can be helpful for treating interaction anxieties.