The present study aims at comparing the study habits of adolescents using internet for academic and non-academic purposes. Researcher conducted this study to know that how internet usage effects the study habits of the school going adolescents. For this purpose, a stratified sample of 200 adolescents from five different schools of Chandigarh was selected by the researcher. To assess the study habits of the adolescents study habits inventory by Mukhopadhyaya and Sansanwal (2005) was used and to study the internet usage a five point Likert scale was developed by the investigator. Results of the study revealed that the study habits of the adolescents using internet for academic purposes is significantly better as compared to the adolescents using internet for non academic purposes. Non significant negative relationship was found between the internet usage by the students’ for academic purposes and study habits. Further, a non significant positive relationship was found between internet usage by the students’ for non-academic purposes and study habits.
Keywords: Study habits, Adolescents, Internet usage, Academic and Non academic purpose.