The Characteristics Of Undergraduates' Self-regulation And It's Relationship With The Internet Addiction Tendency

Self-regulation is one of the most important human activity, it is also a hot issue of psychological researches currently. As researchers had different perspectives, there were still a lot of controversy in this field: there were some differences among the construction of the structure of self-regulation; the conclusions of its'characteristics were not consistent. In this study, researcher analysed the previous researches, constructed a initial theoretical model of self-regulation, and selected 361 and 1061 undergraduates randomly as a sample in Chengdu to analysis and validate the construction of self-regulation model. On this basis, used the undergraduates'self-regulation questionnaire prepared by researcher and internet addiction tendency questionnaire prepared by BaiYu as research tools, to conduct a questionnaire survey on 1061 undergraduates in Chengdu, discussed the relationship between self-regulation and internet addiction tendency. The results showed that:(1)Self-regulation contains five dimensions: goal setting, planning, implement- ation plan, self-monitoring and self-reaction, which is in line with the hypothesis; self-regulation questionnaire is reliability and validity.(2)Undergraduates'self-regulation has the following features:the level of under- graduates'self- regulation is relatively high; on gender, girls are notable higher than boys on general self-regulation,goal setting and implementation plan; in grade,the freshman are notable higher than other grades on general self- regulation and goal setting, planning, self-monitoring and self-reaction,show a downward trend; on profession,science students are higher than arts students on planning and self-reaction.(3) The study also found that the self-regulation has negative correlation with internet addiction tendency. Regression analysis showed that the largest prediction is the third dimension, implementation plan(10.8%), secondly, followed by planning (6.8%),self-monitoring(2.8%), goal setting(1.1%), self-reaction(0.8%), The regression equation can be written: Internet Addiction Tendency =-.162×implementation plan + -.154×planning + -.102×self-monitoring + -.073×goal setting+-.062×self-reaction。Researcher concluded based on the analysis of the study results and discussi- on:(1) Self-regulation contains five dimensions: goal setting, planning, implement- ation plan, self-monitoring and self-reaction.(2) Self-regulation has significant differences in gender ,grade and profession.(3)Self-regulation can significantly predict understudents'internet addiction tendency.