RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS OF THE RESULTS OF INTERNET ADDICTION OF HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS STUDENTS

Abstract

The article investigates the problem of Internet addiction of higher education applicants.

The purpose of the study: to conduct a theoretical analysis and investigate the level of Internet addiction of higher education applicants.

The research methodology includes general theoretical methods: analysis and synthesis of pedagogical, psychological, sociological literature on the problem of the research, comparison, systematization, generalization, interpretation of available theoretical approaches and empirical results. The scientific novelty lies in the primary generalization of the results of Internet addiction research of higher education applicants.

Conclusions. From the theoretical study we can conclude that modern researchers do not yet have an unambiguous interpretation of the problem of Internet addiction and ways to deal with it. Having conducted the empirical research among students, we can draw certain conclusions: there is a problem of Internet addiction of students, there are identified Internet addicts and their number is only growing; now the Internet is mostly used as a learning tool; the question arises of finding methods and means of prevention and control of this addiction with the help of psychologists, teachers and physicians.

An effective way to prevent Internet addiction is to form among young people understanding of the role and place of information media in life, teaching them perceive modern technology as a means to carry out their own creativity, not as an attempt to escape from reality into a bright dynamic space where you can relax from the troubles of life.

In our opinion, in higher education institutions (especially pedagogical profile) it is appropriate in the content of disciplines of psychological and pedagogical, methodological profile to introduce a module on the study of Internet addiction of young people, or (at best) a selective discipline, the content of which would reveal the essence of Internet dependence (addiction) and ways to prevent it among school and student youth.