The Current Situation and Prevention Strategy for the Internet Addiction Disorder of College Students

Abstract

The Internet addiction disorder among college students has become a vital social issue that impacts the overall development of college students. Thus, this paper introduces the specific current situation of the Internet addiction disorder on campus, and suggests that we should strengthen the Education for Humane Mental Quality; that we should flourish campus culture; that we should reinforce the management of network on campus, and implement the “Green Surfing†program; that we should fortify psychological instruction, and offer prompt psychotherapy to the addicted students; that we should adopt the prevention strategy such as rectifying the surrounding environment of campus and establishing interaction with parents and so on. With the large-scale application of the Internet in both higher education and university life, the Internet has become almost a normal and habit in daily life. In addition to its convenience, it also gives rise to many negative impact, bringing its impact on collegiate psyche to the public concern. Since Young [2] put forward PIU (Pathological Internet Use) in 1996, scholars from home and abroad conducted numerous research on this issue. Some scholars tend to describe the phenomenon of psychological addiction of the Internet as IAD (Internet Addiction Disorder), which, however, has not been universally recognized but its consequent symptom has been intensively studied. Undoubtedly, the Internet addiction disorder inflicts huge impacts on college students who are the pillar of society in future and are still growing. Thus, the current situation and prevention strategy ranks the first in all subjects of higher education research.