Abstract:
Purposes of this study were to examine health of early adolescents with internet addiction and the relationships between eating behaviors, activity and exercise behaviors, internet use, and health of early adolescents with internet addiction. Study sample consisted of 111 internet addicted students in grade 7-9 in 4 large schools in upper southern part of Thailand. Subjects were selected by multistage random sampling. Instruments included internet addiction questionnaire, eating behaviors questionnaire, activity and exercise behaviors questionnaire, and adolescents health questionnaire. Content validity for all questionnaires was established by a panel of experts. Cronbachs alpha coefficients of the instruments were .73, .65, .77 and .96, respectively. Data were analyzed by percentage, mean, standard deviation and Pearson product-moment correlation. The results were as follows: 1) Health of early adolescents with internet addiction was good. ([mean] = 3.98, S.D. = .53) 2) Eating behaviors, and activity and exercise behaviors were positively correlated with health of early adolescents with internet addiction, at the level of .05 (r = .468, and .318, respectively). Internet use was not significantly statistically correlated with health of early adolescents addicted to internet.