Analysis of the Effects of Personal Traits and Internet Addiction on Indonesian Students’ Learning Motivation

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to determine the relationship between personality type and internet addiction behaviour and learning motivation among Indonesian students. In addition, each personality type is examined in relation to internet addiction and learning motivation. This study involved 337 students from South Sulawesi, Indonesia. Using multiple linear regression, the study's statistical analyses were performed. The study's findings indicate that personality type and internet addiction behaviour influence learning motivation with a significance value of 0.00 (p 0.05) and a R square value of 0.77 or 7%. This indicates that these two variables influence learning motivation by 7 percent. Furthermore, learning motivation depends on each individual's unique personality. There are three personalities significantly correlated with learning motivation: agreeableness (sig = 0.00; sig 0.05), consciousness (sig = 0.00; sig 0.05), and openness to experience (sig = 0.01; sig 0.05). Extraversion, with a value of sig = 0.367 (sig> 0.05), and neuroticism, with a value of sig 0.137 (sig> 0.05), are the only two of the big five personality traits that are not correlated with learning motivation. Personality factors influence internet addiction. Extraversion with a value of sig = 0.045 (sig 0.05), agreeableness with a value of sig = 0.021 (sig 0.05), and neuroticism with a value of sig = 0.02 (sig 0.05) are three of the big five personality traits that correlate with internet addiction behaviour. On the other hand, there are two Big Five Personality traits that are not associated with internet addiction: consciousness with a sig value of 0.189 (sig>0.05) and openness to experience with a sig value of 0.704% (sig>0.05).