The Effect of Perceived Personal Discrimination on Internet Addiction: A Case Study in Vietnam

Abstract

Internet addiction has recently become one of the emerging issues in common life. There would be an urge in working out the factors affecting this problematic use of the Internet, one of which is perceived personal discrimination. This research aims to make an evaluation on the influence of perceived personal discrimination to Internet addiction in the Vietnamese context. The research conducted a survey with the participation of 477 respondents. The data was processed with software Excel 2016 and analyzed by using descriptive statistics, factor analysis, reliability test and regression in software SPSS 20.0. The empirical results showed that perceived personal discrimination significantly affects Internet addiction. Thereby, this research recommended orientation for the next studies on Internet addiction.