The Price of Internet Addiction.

      Аннотация: Designing and Evaluating the Research Instrument: The Price of Internet Addiction. This research focused on the use of internet and its impact on the mental health scale of the adolescents. A standardized instrument was unavailable to measure the impact on the use of internet to mental health scale, the researcher addressed this gap and crafted the instrument that accurately measure the level of stress and the level of internet addiction and to prove the evidences of the validity and reliability of the instrument used. The impact on the use of ICT Survey for College students was developed and adapted Colton and Covert (2007) steps in instrument construction. Methods: The overall reliability test measure utilized Cronbach’s Alpha is .940 which means that items in the tool is highly reliable. It explored the possibilities on how internet exposure affected the mental health of these teenagers. Conclusion: this research study proved to be valid as it would measure what it intends to measure as far as the the use the use of internet and its impact on mental health of these young adults is concerned. This study established the standardized questionnaire and is available.

Ключевые слова: Internet addiction, Philippines, Research instrument