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Internet addiction in the island of Hippocrates: the associations between internet abuse and adolescent off-line behaviours.
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Child & Adolescent Mental Health . Feb2012, Vol. 17 Issue 1, p37-44. 8p. - Publication Year :
- 2012
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Abstract
- Background: To investigate the phenomenon of internet addiction and concurrent social (off-line) behaviours of an adolescent population a cross-sectional survey of the entire adolescent student population (N = 1270, aged 14-18) of the island of Kos in Greece was conducted. Method: Completion by the survey participants of a demographic questionnaire, the 8-question YDQ (Diagnostic Questionnaire for Internet Addiction) and the 20-question IAT (Internet Addiction Test), followed by comparative analysis between and within usage groups. Results: Results demonstrate that 7.2% of male and 5.1% of female internet users present addictive behaviours while using the internet. Conclusions: Anti-social, aggressive behaviours were significantly correlated with an increase to the pattern of abusive internet use in both sexes. Boys and girls had distinct profiles of off-line and online preferences. Boys tended to favour interest-driven online activities as their levels of addictive behaviour increased while girls favoured communication-driven online activities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *COMMUNICATION methodology
*INTERNET addiction
*AGGRESSION (Psychology)
*SOCIAL alienation
*CHI-squared test
*COMPULSIVE behavior
*STATISTICAL correlation
*INTERPERSONAL relations
*PORNOGRAPHY
*QUESTIONNAIRES
*RESEARCH funding
*SCALE analysis (Psychology)
*SELF-evaluation
*SEX distribution
*STATISTICS
*T-test (Statistics)
*U-statistics
*VIDEO games
*DATA analysis
*CROSS-sectional method
*DATA analysis software
*DESCRIPTIVE statistics
*ADOLESCENCE
*PSYCHOLOGY
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1475357X
- Volume :
- 17
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Child & Adolescent Mental Health
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 69871322
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-3588.2011.00605.x