Abstract
Nowadays, the Internet has a serious impact on the human psyche, and this problem is only gaining momentum. During the COVID-19 pandemic, as part of a forced necessity, the whole world moved to the global information space. There are both pros and cons to such absolute digitalization. We, as psychologists, will be interested in the other side of the coin. On the basis of this, we conducted an empirical study dedicated to the study of the psychological characteristics of the personality of students with varying degrees of severity of Internet addiction. This article will present the results of a study involving 250 students from various universities in Russia. In the course of empirical research, we used the following methods: an author’s questionnaire to determine the amount and quality of time spent by respondents on the Internet; Diagnostics of the tendency to 13 types of addictions (G.V. Lozovaya); Test “Self-assessment of mental states” (G.Yu. Eysenck); Methodology “Diagnostics of typologies of psychological defense” (R. Plutchikas adapted by L.I. Wasserman, O.F. Eryshev, E.B. Klubova, etc.); Methodology for «Determining stress resistance and social adaptation» of Holmes and Rage; Kimberly Young «Internet Addiction Test». The results obtained in the course of the research can be used by practicing psychologists, psychotherapists, clinical psychologists when working with addicts and co-addicts. The presented results can be applied in the practice of the educational process as prevention of Internet addiction.
Highlights
According to the latest relevant psychological research, the main reason for Internet addiction is compensation for low self-esteem of the user, and not a problem in communication, as it was previously believed, since this group of people does not consider the network a source of social support, as well as salvation from their loneliness [1, 2, 4, 9, 10, 11].People tend to deny its existence or leave it instead of solving problems
Using the methods of mathematical statistics, we found that there is a significant relationship between Internet addiction and alcohol, labor, drug, nicotine, and the general tendency to addictive behavior
The level of propensity to Internet addiction is associated with the manifestation of such addictions as alcohol, labor, drug, nicotine and general propensity to addictive agents
Summary
According to the latest relevant psychological research, the main reason for Internet addiction is compensation for low self-esteem of the user, and not a problem in communication, as it was previously believed, since this group of people does not consider the network a source of social support, as well as salvation from their loneliness [1, 2, 4, 9, 10, 11]. People tend to deny its existence or leave it instead of solving problems. K. Young identifies 4 signs by which one can determine Internet addiction: 1) Constant desire to check mail; 2) Obsessive desire to constantly access the Internet; 3) Excessive spending time on the Internet; 4) Excessive waste of money on the Internet [16,17]. S., Weinstein A., in his work "Internet addiction as a form of non-chemical addictive disorder", identifies some causes of addiction: anonymity on the Web-the user experiences a sense of security and security; new (additional) images of the user are formed (his various fantasies); wide opportunities for finding new partners by correspondence, you can abandon it and look for a new one [2]
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