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Internet addiction in students: Prevalence and risk factors

Daria J. Kuss, +2 more
- 01 May 2013 - 
- Vol. 29, Iss: 3, pp 959-966
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Frequent usage of online shopping and social online activities, high neuroticism and low agreeableness significantly increased the chances of being addicted to the Internet, whereas a combination of online gaming and openness to experience increased it.
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This article is published in Computers in Human Behavior.The article was published on 2013-05-01 and is currently open access. It has received 433 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: The Internet & Addiction.

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A New Game-based Strategy for Enhancing Youth Programming Skills

Ataollah Zarei, +4 more
- 01 Sep 2020 - 
TL;DR: This qualitative study proposes a solution based on game-based instruction and learning by design approaches to address the aforementioned problems of excessive video game playing and poor learning quality in secondary school students.

Discrimination between normal and educational procrastination students based on internet addiction

Arash Shahbazian, +1 more
Abstract: Background and Objective: Computer and internet tools are necessary to facilitate the living of people today that had created risks. One of these risks can develop in the students' educational procrastination. This study aimed to discriminate normal students from those with educational procrastination based on internet addiction. Materials and Methods: The research method of this study was causalcomparative. The population consisted of dormitory students studying at universities of Azerbaijan in the academic years 2015-2016 who according to Morgan table, 200 of them were selected by multi-stage cluster sampling. Data were collected from questionnaires for procrastination Solomon and Rasblvm and internet addiction. Data using cluster analysis and discriminant analysis were analyzed. Results: The results showed that the detection of the first cluster of students with high levels of valuation prepared for the exam, preparing assignments, preparation for addiction to internet articles that clustering students with high academic procrastination and called internet addiction. The second cluster includes students with lower levels of valuation prepared for the exam, preparing assignments, preparation for addiction to internet articles that clusters of students with low academic procrastination was called internet addiction. Detection function results showed that 81 cases (77.9%) of students with academic procrastination and 59 cases (61.5 percent) were diagnosed correctly as ordinary students. Conclusion: Educational procrastination and internet addiction are important factors that should be education; education students are considered with proper education and teach time management and effective use of the internet.
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Dijital Bağımlılık ile Mücadelede Sosyal Bilişimin Rolü

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Internet Addiction in Kuwait and Efforts to Control It

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Frequently Asked Questions (8)
Q1. What have the authors contributed in "Internet addiction in students: prevalence and risk factors" ?

Rather than looking at Internet addiction per se, this study focused on particular activities on the Internet that might be potentially addictive and linked them to personality traits that might predispose individuals to Internet addiction. The aims of this study were ( i ) to assess the prevalence of clinically significant levels of Internet addiction, and to ( ii ) discern the interplay between personality traits and specific Internet uses in increasing the risk for Internet addiction. This cross-sectional online survey used data from 2,257 students of an English university. 

The next Internet application that significantly increased the risks of being addicted to the Internet was online chat/forums (i.e., increased chance by 60%). 

As with online chat rooms, online forums may be a substitute for real life contacts, and engagement with them could lead to excess, as suggested by the results of this study. 

The baseline model including no predictors was significant (b = -3.340, Wald Χ2 (1) = 761.17, p < .01), indicating that the chance for being addicted to the Internet by the overall study population was .03. 

the interaction between neuroticism and online shopping decreased the odds of being addicted to the Internet by 45% (b = -.60, Wald Χ2 (1) = 5.50, p < .05). 

This study also demonstrated that engaging in online gaming increased the risks of being addicted to the Internet when paired with higher openness to experience. 

it suggests that SNSs are mostly used for the maintenance of established offline networks that are important for academic and professional opportunities, and thus might explain why some individuals become addicted to using them (Kuss & Griffiths, 2011). 

Previous research has found that the reasons for increased use of instant messengers (e.g., ICQ, MSN) in young populations are media richness and presentational control (Sheer, 2010).