A study on inclination of adolescents with internet addiction disorder and social psychic factors

Abstract

Objective To study the characters of the personality,parents' personality, parental child-rearing style and adolescence with internet addiction disorder(IAD), and to investigate the influencing factors of personality of adolescence with IAD for understanding its pathology mechanism. Methods 1. Adopting control case study to test 64 IAD children and 56 health control children with Kimberly Young Internet Addiction Inventory ;Eysenck Personality Questionnaire(EPQ), EMBU( Own Memories of Parental Rearing Experiences in childhood) ;2. Differences between the IAD and control groups were investigated with two-sample independent t test. 3. All analyses were conducted using the SPSS statistical package ( version 11.5 ). Results In EMBU, the scores of parents' rejection,denial,punishment in IAD group were significantly higher than that of control group( P<0.01 ),the scores of mother's emotional warmth were lower than that of controls( P < 0.05 ). In EPQ,the scores on psychoticism, neuroticism of IAD patients were much higher than that of controls ( P < 0.01 ), the scores of extraversion were lower than controls(P<0.05) ; the scores of mother's neuroticism in IAD group were much higher than that of control group ( P < 0.01 ). Conclusions The IAD patients had the special personality character. The personality of mothers with IAD child was abnormal,which had more influence on IAD patients' personality characters. Key words: Internet addiction disorder; Adolescents; Personality character; Parental child-rearing style