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Abstract

Nowadays, Internet addiction is being documented as a mental health problem. The adverse effects of Internet addiction are not comparable to the traditional forms of addiction. Because its services are so readily available, the issue has become worse over the past decade. The future, though, might see a severe issue with Internet addiction. This calls for an urgent discussion of the problem. Adolescents are also the age group that is identified to be the most vulnerable owing to several causes. The objective of this study was to assess the achievement motivation of adolescent boys and girls as a function of Internet addiction. The Internet Addiction Test (IAT) by Young (1996) and the Achievement Motivation Test by D. Gopal Rao were employed, respectively, for the study's objectives. The Internet Addiction Test (IAT) was administered to 200 adolescents (N=200) from different higher secondary schools and +2 colleges in the Odisha districts of Khurdha and Cuttack for a quasi-experimental research study. The top 50 and the lowest 50 adolescents made up the high and low Internet addiction categories, respectively, based on the scores on this measure. In a quasi-experimental study, the achievement motivation was examined between 50 adolescents with high Internet addiction and another group of 50 adolescents with low Internet addiction. The Rao's Achievement Motivation Test was given to both groups. To compare the achievement motivation scores between the two groups, an independent samples t-test was used. Findings showed a significant difference between the high and low Internet addiction groups favoring the latter group in relation to achievement motivation..