Proposal of Applying Visual Analog Scale to the Internet Addiction Tendency Scale for High-school Students

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to examine effects of the Internet addiction tendency scale utilizing visual analog scale (VAS). 355 high-school students answered 7items about “Questionnaires relating to the sending and reception of messages on the Internet” and 10items about “Questionnaires relating to the participation attitude to the Internet”. As a result of this research, we could indicate the students who have any problems of the Internet addiction by univariate scatter plot and box-and-whisker plot. It is concluded that utilizing VAS to this scale is effective to investigate and analyze the Internet addiction tendency among high-school students.