Digital Nativity and Internet addiction data and extended data

The research aimed to explore the relationship between digital nativity and internet addiction among university students at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Ghana. The hypothesis was that higher levels of digital nativity, as measured by the Digital Native Assessment Scale (DNAS), would correlate with higher levels of internet addiction, measured by the Internet Addiction Test (IAT). The data from 411 undergraduate students from various academic disciplines supported this hypothesis, showing a significant positive correlation between DNAS and IAT scores (r = 0.569, p < 0.001). This indicates that students with higher digital nativity are more prone to developing internet addiction behaviours.

Notable findings from the data include the influence of academic level and college affiliation on internet addiction. Students in higher academic years and those from the College of Science exhibited heightened susceptibility to internet addiction. Additionally, the data revealed that both g