Effect Of Internet Addiction Research Articles

Mediators in the Relationship between Internet Addiction and Body Mass Index: A Path Model Approach Using Partial Least Square.

Adolescence obesity has now become an epidemic. In recent years, Internet addiction has been identified as a risk factor for obesity. We aimed to evaluate the role of some mediators such as sleep quality, physical activity and fast food consumption in the relation between internet addiction and Body Mass Index (BMI) among adolescents. A cross-sectional study. Overall, 928 students, aged between 13 and 17 yr, were randomly selected in Behbahan, southwestern Iran from Oct 2017 to Dec 2017. Data were collected using a demographic survey, Young's internet addiction, Pittsburgh sleep quality, and food frequency, questionnaires. Data analysis was performed using Partial Least Squares (PLS) path analysis. PLS path analysis revealed that the direct effect of Internet addiction on BMI was (Path Coefficient = 0.16, [95% CI: 0.12- 0.21]). Moreover, the indirect effect of internet addiction on BMI through sleep quality was (f2 = 0.12 (P<0.001)), physical activity (f2 =0.04 (P<0.001)), and fast food consumption ( f2 = 0.05 (P<0.001)). Results of this study regarding the relationship between internet addiction and BMI and the effect of this phenomenon on sleep quality, physical activity and dietary habits suggest planning prevention and treatment programs to reduce the prevalence of this phenomenon in schools.

PENGARUH KECANDUAN INTERNET DAN MATERIALISME TERHADAP PERILAKU PEMBELIAN KOMPULSIF ONLINE

ABSTRAK&#x0D; Penelitian ini dilakukan dengan tujuan untuk mengetahui pengaruh kecanduan internet dan materialisme terhadap perilaku belanja kompulsif online. Penelitian dilakukan dengan menyasar masyarakat Indonesia pengguna media internet. Jumlah sampel yang digunakan sebanyak 80 responden dengan menggunakan teknik purposive sampling. Data dikumpulkan dengan cara menyebarkan kuesioner secara online yang menggunakan skala Likert 5 poin untuk mengukur 16 indikator. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa kecanduan internet dan materialisme berpengaruh positif dan signifikan terhadap perilaku pembelian kompulsif online. Berdasarkan hasil penelitian semakin sering seseorang menghabiskan waktunya bermain internet serta memiliki pola pikir materialis cenderung memiliki perilaku belanja kompulsif online. Fenomena tersebut merupakan peluang yang dapat dimanfaatkan oleh pelaku usaha untuk merancang strategi yang mampu mendorong calon konsumen agar tertarik dan membeli produk yang ditawarkan.

The Effect of Internet Addiction on the Academic Performance of Undergraduate Nursing Students

The Effect of Internet Addiction on the Academic Performance of Undergraduate Nursing Students

A Study on the Effects of Internet Addiction on College Students’ Foreign Language Learning

A Study on the Effects of Internet Addiction on College Students’ Foreign Language Learning

Relationship between Internet Addiction, Gaming Addiction and School Engagement among Adolescents

This research examined the relationship of Internet addiction and gaming addiction with school engagement and effects of Internet addiction and gaming addiction on school engagement. The research was conducted with 365 students (140, 38.4%, males; 225, 61.6%, females) studying at an Anatolian high school in Gaziantep province. Personal Information Form, Scale of Internet Usage Addiction, Gaming Addiction Scale for Adolescents and School Engagement Scale for Children and Adolescents (High School Form) were utilized as data collection tools. The data obtained were analyzed with correlation and multiple regression analysis. A weak negative relationship was found between Internet addiction and school engagement. No relationship was found between gaming addiction and school engagement. It was also concluded that Internet addiction is a significant predictor of school engagement and gaming addiction does not predict school engagement significantly.

Prevalence of internet addiction amongst the IT professionals of Bangalore city and its effect on their lifestyle and dietary habits

Background: Internet is being widely used all around the world, had both positive and negative influence in human life. The number of users is increasing day by day. Recent reports indicated that some on-line users, particularly IT Professionals, were becoming addicted to the Internet in much the same way that others became addicted to drugs, alcohol, or gambling, which resulted in; reduced work performance, and even marital discord and separation. The objectives of the study were the pattern of Internet addiction on young’s internet addiction diagnostic questionnaire and the effects of Internet addiction on the lifestyle and dietary behaviour. Methods: Cross-sectional online survey was conducted amongst the IT Professionals of 4 different companies. Data was collected on a pre-designed questionnaire. The questionnaire consisted of 1. Socio-demographic information, 2.Young’s Internet Addiction Test (IAT) 3. Dietary pattern. The questionnaire was sent to 400 people through e-mail, out of which 353 subjects mailed back the questionnaire with complete response. Results: Majority of the participants were in the age group of 30 to 34, males and were educated up to post-graduate level. When the scores were tabulated on Young’s Internet Addiction Scale, 30.8% of the subjects were found to be mildly addicted to internet, where as 48.4% and 20.8% were moderately and severely addicted. Conclusions: People who are high in internet addiction are more likely to vulnerability to depression, anxiety, and stress. Psychological approach is essential to tackle this problem.

Effect of internet addiction on psychological wellbeing among adolescents

The present study aims to find out the effect of internet addiction on psychological wellbeing of adolescents studying in and around Mysuru city. A total of 720 adolescents were included in the present study, having equal number of male and female students studying in 10, 11 and 12th standards. They were administered Internet addiction scale (Young, 1998) and Psychological wellbeing scale (Ryff, 1989). One way ANOVA was employed to find out the difference between normal, problematic and addict levels of internet on psychological wellbeing scores. Results revealed that as the levels of internet addiction increased, total psychological wellbeing scores decreased linearly and significantly. As the levels of internet addiction increased, wellbeing also decreased in specific components of autonomy, environmental mastery, and purpose in life.

A Correlation Study on the Effect of Internet Addiction on Depression Among Adults at Selected College, Rajkot

Internet addiction disorder (IAD) is a modern day addiction. Persons with IAD can exhibit symptoms, suffer drawbacks, and face consequences that are similar to individuals addicted to alcohol, gambling, narcotics, shopping, and other compulsive behaviors. One way to describe persons infected with this disorder is that they find the virtual environment to be more attractive than everyday reality. Their daily lives are dominated with their need to be online. Sadly, this addiction is affecting millions of adolescents and their families in every aspect of their life. The primary areas affected include school, family, work and relationships. The research design adopted was Co relational Research Design. The conceptual frame work for this study was based on Health Belief Model. The study had been conducted in Atmiya Engineering College, Rajkot. Non-probability purposive sampling technique had been adopted to select the desired samples. The sample size was 160. As an intervention I administered the Internet addiction scale among the samples and identified the level of Internet addiction among them and then administered the depression scale for the purpose of assessing the level of depression among the internet addicted individuals. The collected data were analyzed by using both descriptive and inferential statistical methods, ‘r’ test was used to evaluate relationship between internet addiction and depression. The obtained ‘r’ value was 0.4749 which showed high significance at 0.001 level. Hence findings of the study revealed that there was a significant relationship between the internet addiction and depression and also there was significant association between the mean difference in Internet Addiction and daily usage of the internet (χ2=20.028), purpose of use ((χ2=59.20) and Money spend on internet (χ2=19.12) and there was significant association between the mean difference depression and daily usage of the internet (χ2=26.24and Time frame for using internet (χ2=23.05).

Internet Addiction: An Interpersonal Perspective

Internet addiction has become important as people increasingly spend time online conducting every day affairs. The excessive use of the Internet may be due to a number of different reasons and a wide variety of consequences. Therefore, the objective of this study was to understand the Internet addiction phenomenon. This quantitative study focused on the interpersonal relationship perspective, perceived online attachment motivation and perceived online relationship commitment, to explain excessive use of the Internet. A questionnaire survey to1,443 secondary school graduates found that Internet addiction was significantly related to the perceived online attachment motivation (β = .180, p < .001) and the perceived online relationship commitment (β = .366, p< .001). The model explained 25.8 percent variance of the Internet addiction measured. Implications due to the need of interpersonal relationship and the consequences of Internet addiction are discussed.

부모의 문제음주가 대학생 자녀의 정신건강에 미치는 영향 : 인터넷중독의 매개효과

부모의 문제음주가 대학생 자녀의 정신건강에 미치는 영향 : 인터넷중독의 매개효과

Internet Addiction and Psychological Well-being among Youth of Kashmir

The present study was conducted with the aim to examine the relationship between internet addiction and psychological well-being among youth of Kashmir and to find out the difference in both addiction and psychological well-being among youth of Kashmir with respect to gender and residential status. 100 students studying in various colleges of two districts of Kashmir (Srinagar and Ganderbal) completed the Young’s Internet addiction test (Young, 1998) and Ryff’s Psychological well-being scale (Ryff, 1995). Results of the study revealed a significant negative correlation between internet addiction and psychological well-being among youth of Kashmir. Further it was found that there is significant difference in internet addiction among youth of Kashmir with respect to their gender, males were found to be high on internet addiction than their counter parts and no significant difference was found in internet addiction with respect to their residential status. Results also revealed insignificant difference in psychological well-being among male and female youth and regarding their residential status significant difference was found in psychological well-being, urban youth were found to be high on the levels of psychological well being as compared to rural youth. The study will be helpful in highlighting the effect of internet addiction among youth which is becoming a menace day by day for society.

Addicted to the Thrill of the Virtual Hunt: Examining the Effects of Internet Addiction on the Cyberstalking Behaviors of Juveniles

ABSTRACTThe rapid advancement of technology has produced several substantial benefits that enrich individuals’ lives, but some also note that technology has provided new methods to engage in crime—particularly stalking. This investigation was one of the first to explore whether a relationship existed between cyberstalking and a new phenomenon becoming a pressing issue in the lives of adolescents: Internet Addiction. High school students in a rural North Carolina country were surveyed about their Internet behaviors and experiences. After analysis, the results indicated there is a significant relationship between Internet Addiction and cyberstalking in adolescents.

The Attitude of High School Students in Kuwait towards Internet Addiction and Its Effect on their Health

The Internet is a new technology that has affected the world; it provided many benefits to its users. At the same time, many people are becoming addicted to Internet and unable to control their use, especially high school students, and this is affecting their health, education and relationships. The aim of this study is to diagnose the attitude of high school students in Kuwait towards internet, and the effect of Internet addiction on their health. Results demonstrated that a high percentage of high school students encounter the problem of Internet addiction. Most of them show traumatic stress, and community violence. They admit that health education is very important in teaching strategies that help them to overcome difficulties and learn healthy ways of using the Internet. In addition, a high percentage agreed that Internet addiction affected their health, it caused mental health problems, it resulted severe headaches and vision problems, and have negative effects on their physical, mental, psychological development and overall health.

성인 인터넷 중독과 일주기 리듬의 연관성

Background and Objectives: Internet addiction is an increasing problem in Korea. The previous studies in this area have targeted adolescents and young adults. This study was conducted to examine the risk of internet addiction in Korean adults and the effect of internet addiction on circadian rhythm. Materials and Methods: For this study, 508 subjects were chosen through population proportional sampling to represent the adult population in Korea, 325 of whom were included based on the Alcohol Use Disorder Identification Test-Korea (Audit-K), Zung's Self-Rating Depression Scale (SDS), drug use in the past year, and suicide attempts. In these subjects, sociodemographic factors including age, gender, and residential area were analyzed, and Young's Internet Addiction Scale (IAS), Morningness-Eveningness Questionnaire (MEQ), and an online survey examining sleep onset time on weekdays and weekends, wake-up time, and caffeinated drink intake were executed. Results: Of the 325 subjects, 136 (41.8%) belonged to a high-risk internet addiction group (), and 189 (58.2%) belonged to a normal group (IAS ) in the high-risk group (p = 0.024), who also showed a high proportion of caffeinated drink intake (p

Disrupted inter-hemispheric functional and structural coupling in Internet addiction adolescents

Rapid progress had been made towards the effect of Internet addiction (IA) on the adolescents brain, relatively little is known about the alterations in inter-hemispheric resting state functional connectivity (RSFC) changes. In the current study, voxel-mirrored homotopic connectivity (VMHC) was used to examine inter-hemispheric RSFC in IA adolescents (n=21) and controls (n=21). The integrity of the fibers connecting the regions, which showed aberrant inter-hemispheric functional connectivity, was assessed by fiber tractography analysis. In addition, the coupling of inter-hemispheric functional and structural connectivity was investigated. Relative to controls, IA adolescents showed decreased VMHC of dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) and reduced fractional anisotropy (FA) values in the genu of corpus callosum (CC). The decreased VMHC of DLPFC was significantly negative correlated with the duration of IA. Moreover, the VMHC of DLPFC showed significant correlations with the FA of CC in healthy controls, which was disrupted in IA. Our findings provided more scientific evidence for the involvement of DLPFC in IA. It is hoped that multimodal imaging methods can provide deeper insights into the IA effects on the brain.

디지털교과서 활용이 인터넷 중독에 미치는 영향

디지털교과서 활용이 인터넷 중독에 미치는 영향

Some aspects of cyber socialization of the individual

This article is devoted to the individual’s cyber-socialization, particularly the problems arising in the process of socialization in the information society. We consider the positive and negative effects of socialization in the Internet-space, investigates the causes and effects of Internet-addiction and their impact on the further development of the individual and ways to overcome them.

Post-operative physiotherapy in foreign medical interventions during humanitarian crises: a literature review

These all can ultimately affect academic performance of a student. Various studies indicate the effect of pathological internet use on academic performance as well as physical and mental health, but no study has found the prevalence of pathological internet use and its psychological consequences among undergraduate physiotherapy students. Purpose:This cross sectional study intends to estimate the prevalence of pathological internet use among undergraduate students of an Indian university. Secondary objective of this study is to find the correlation between pathological internet use and academic performance, depression and general health. Methods: A questionnaire set is distributed among undergraduate physiotherapy students enrolled in an Indian university (n= 175). Informed written consent was obtained from all the participants before the study. Out of total responses those who were not willing to participate have been excluded. So, the response rate of this study is 84.57% (n= 148). The survey instrument consistDemographic details and previously validated and reliableYoung’s InternetAddictionQuestionnaire, Beck’sDepression Inventory andGeneral Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12) which are most commonly used to measure what it intends to. Results: The mean age of participants is 18.98± 1.24 years with high female representation (83%). Prevalence rate of Internet addiction is 34.5% (n= 51) with more than 99% (n= 147) are using internet. Mean time of internet use is 4.43± 0.78 hours. The Average Expense for internet use is 258 INR. Because of internet addiction, 15% (n= 22) have moderate depression and 29.72% (n= 44) have borderline clinical depression. 25%(n= 37) of students have found to have psychological distress because of internet usage. There is positive correlation between academic performance and their internet usage (r= 0.7458). Conclusion(s): Internet addiction is currently becoming a serious mental health problem among undergraduate physiotherapy college students. Internet addiction, as a new challenge in the health care system is needed to be prevented and cured considerably. The academic performance of students improves with the internet usage, which suggests increase usage of internet should be necessary for physiotherapy students. Implications: Results of this study are useful in policy and guideline formulation for the students for a positive use of internet. It will also help to resolve the physical as well as psycho-social consequences of internet addiction.

Suicide Risk in College Students: The Effects of Internet Addiction and Drug Use

This study aims to identify the factors in suicide risk among college students by examining the direct and indirect effects of drug use, internet addiction, gender, and alcohol use on suicide risk. The sample of the study is composed of 975 students studying at different faculties of Ahi Evran University during the academic year 2011– 2012. They were selected through convenience sampling. This study used the University Form of Risk Behaviors Scale and Internet Addiction Scale as the data collection instruments. A path analysis was conducted to view the effects of independent variables on suicide risk. Results showed that college students’ suicide risk is predicted by drug use and Internet addiction; and while gender and alcohol use do not have a direct significant effect on suicide risk, their indirect effects are significant. According to these results, suicide risk in university students is predicted by other risk behaviors. Thus, the importance of demonstrating the causal relationship between risk behaviors is discussed in the light of literature.

Prevalence and Consequences of Internet Addiction in a Cohort of Tunisian Adolescents: A Pilot Study

Introduction: There are few studies interested in internet addiction in Tunisia, despite the worldwide concern with this problem. The aim of the study is to measure the prevalence of internet addiction among secondary school students in the city of Monastir, Tunisia, and to portray its impact. Methodology: It is a transversal epidemiological study carried on a sample of students attending secondary school in the city of Monastir, Tunisia. It was conducted in the course of the 2010/2011 school year. The participants had filled the Internet Addiction Test of Young and a data file regarding the socio-demographic information, physical and psychological history and information about the internet access and use. The Internet Addiction Test consists of 20 items, rated according to Likert scale. The total score ranges from 20 to 100. It is considered as internet addicts those whose the scores are equal and higher than 70. Results: The sample consisted of 415 males (M) and 567 females (F) with a mean age of 17.10 ± 0.92 years. The prevalence of internet addiction was 11.6% (IC 95%: [9.60-13.61]); M: 12.8% (IC 95%: [9.55-15.99]), F: 10.8% (IC 95%/ [8.20-13.31]). The consequences of cyberaddiction reported by this study were: sleep disorders, neglecting household chores, academic difficulties, social isolation and mood and behavior disturbances (violence, irritability). Conclusion: The prevalence of internet addiction is elevated in Tunisia. Many negative consequences are identified. Urgent measures should be taken to counter the problem.