Identifying the Level of Internet Use in Middle and Late Adolescence Stages in Post Covid Time

During the pandemic, working at home and students studying online classes the amount of internet usage also increased a lot. But now the impact of covid has reduced in many countries of the world. The main purpose of this research is to identify the level of internet use in middle and late adolescence in post covid era. The stages of adolescence and gender, while internet addiction have been included as independent and dependent variable, respectively. Total 400 adolescents equally distributed in boys and girls having middle and late adolescence have been purposively selected from the schools of Gandhinagar and Mehsana district of Gujarat state. The data was collected with the help of Internet Addiction Test (IAT) developed by Young. Mean score and F ratio were calculated for the 2x2 factorial design. Results indicate that the late adolescence boys have high level of internet use (M= 38.41) than the other three groups i.e. middle adolescence boys (M=31.06), middle adolescence girls (M=36.44) and late adularescence girls (M= 36.52). But the differences between the groups of late and middle adolescence (F= 3.62) as well as boys and girls adolescence (F= 0.80) on the Stages of adolescence are not found significant. The interactive effect between adolescence stage and gender also found insignificant (F= 3.47). However, results indicate that all groups of adolescence have a mild level of internet addiction as per the criterion developed by the Young