FEATURES OF COMPUTER ADDICTION IN ADOLESCENTS FROM COMPLETE AND SINGLE-PARENT FAMILIES

Abstract

Today, virtual reality is becoming the reality where teenagers spend most of their time, often this develops into addiction. As psychotherapist V. A. Burova notes, the term “dependence” (addiction) was “borrowed from the lexicon of psychiatrists to facilitate the identifi cation of the problem of the Internet by associating it with characteristic social and psychological problems. The problem of computer addiction in adolescents arose most acutely during the period of rapid development of information technology and modern children do not imagine their life, leisure and study without a computer. Psychologists are sounding the alarm that computer games cause addiction, which is analogous to drug addiction. Currently, the computer takes the fi rst place in importance in the life of a teenager. Teenagers are mostly at risk. This diffi cult period of puberty exposes many acute problems and imperfections of young people. Many people fail to cope with the internal and external confl icts that have arisen, as a result, there appears a desire to escape from reality, which contributes to the emergence of computer addiction. The purpose of our study is to study the features of computer addiction in adolescents from complete and single-parent families. For the study, we used the Kimberly-Young test for Internet addiction and screening diagnostics of computer addiction. Our study involved  adolescents aged - years. Adolescents are showing an average level of Internet addiction. This means that most teenagers are at risk of Internet addiction. Among the adolescents surveyed, almost an equal number of people are at the stage of passion and at the fi rst stage of computer addiction, while a small number of respondents were identifi ed at extreme values. The second stage of dependence was not revealed among the respondents.