Objectives: The current study was designed to investigate the relationship between perceived stress, self-regulation and internet addiction in Palestinian Youth.

Methods: A correlational study was conducted to examine the relationship between study variables. Participants were selected using a simple random sampling technique of An- Najah National University students (ANNU) through compulsory course class lists, using every 7th student to solicit for study purposes. 556 students participated, including 178 males and 378 females.

Results: Findings indicated that participants scored on line usage on internet addiction. While internet addiction was positively correlated to perceived stress, and negatively correlated to self-regulation, in addition, perceived stress was negatively correlated to self-regulation.

Conclusion: The study showed a statistically significant positive correlation between internet addiction and perceived stress (r =.24, p < .01), the regression analysis for predicting internet addiction found that perceived stress contributes in a way that was statistically significant towards explaining variance in internet addiction, results also showed a statistically significant negative correlation between internet addiction and self-regulation (r = -.23, p < .01). Further research into this relationship may be critical in devising interventions to reduce stress and increase self-regulation to deal with internet addiction among Palestinian youth.

Key words: Internet addiction, Perceived stress, Self-regulation, Palestine.

Title

Journal of Concurrent Disorders

Publisher

Journal of Concurrent Disorders

Publisher Country

Canada

Indexing

Scopus

Impact Factor

None

Publication Type

Both (Printed and Online)

Volume

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Year

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Pages

1-19