A STUDY TO ASSESS THE EFFECTS OF CYBER ADDICTION ON THE SELECTED PSYCHOSOCIAL BEHAVIOUR OF NURSING STUDENTS AT SELECTED NURSING COLLEGES, CHENNAI

An all-encompassing word for the compulsive needs to spend a lot of time online to the point where relationships, job, and health are permitted to suffer is Internet addiction or Cyber addiction or Digital addiction. A descriptive correlational study was conducted on106 nursing students who were selected by nonprobability convenience sampling technique. The data was collected by using Internet Addiction Scale (Chen), Depression, Anxiety, Stress Scale for youth Szabó and Lovibond, Russell, D Peplaus UCLA Loneliness Scale. Results of the study showed that 4.7% of nursing students had cyberaddiction,95.3% of nursing students did not have cyber addiction.67.9% of nursing students were normal without depression, 27.4% had mild level of depression, 4.7% had moderate level of depression.67.9% of the nursing students were normal without anxiety, 27.4% had mild level of anxiety, 4.7% had moderate level of anxiety. 96.2%of the nursing students were normal without stress, 3.8 had mild level of Stress. Pearsons correlation coefficient showed that there was direct relationship between the Cyber Addiction score and the Anxiety score (r = 0.410, p = ˂.01) and stress score (r = 0.423, p = ˂.01), depression (r=0.432, p=<0.1) among the students and as the cyber addiction increased anxiety and stress, depression also increased.