期刊名称：International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences
电子版ISSN：2222-6990
出版年度：2021
卷号：11
期号：9
页码：439-450
DOI：10.6007/IJARBSS/v11-i9/11027
语种：English
出版社：Human Resource Management Academic Research Society
摘要：This paper attempts to bring forward the idea of internet addiction at one of the public universities in Semarang, Indonesia. Social influence and coordination are seen as factors that determine the influence of internet addiction among youth. There are 164 youths involved in this study from one of the universities in Semarang, Indonesia. The results revealed that there has been an influence of social influence, connecting and coordination towards internet addiction among students. The data were collected from 168 youth, but only 164 returned the questionnaire. The research was limited only at one of the universities in Semarang and further data collection could be conducted in other areas due to increase in the generalizability of the result. Apart from this, this study was only conducted by using random sampling technique and, therefore further discussion could be elaborated further by using qualitative research methodology and understanding in-depth the cultural behaviour among youth.
