The health and socio-economic challenges arising from the COVID-19 pandemic have led to greater reliance on internet meet basic needs responsibilities. Greater engagement in online activities may negative mental physical consequences for some vulnerable individuals, particularly under mandatory self-isolation or ‘lockdown’ conditions. present study investigated whether changes levels of involve...

Background and aims The phenomenon of Internet pornography (IP) addiction is gainingincreasing attention in the popular media and psychological research.What has not been tested empirically is how frequency and amount ofIP use, along with other individual characteristics, are related tosymptoms of IP addiction. Methods 105 female and 86 male university students (mean age 21) from Calgary,Canada...

Research on cyberbullying has focused personal and contextual factors. However, little is known about its relationship with habitual behaviours associated easy access to the Internet, such as cybergossip problematic Internet use, well role that gender age play in relation these variables. Knowledge subjects could contribute elaboration of new preventive educational approaches. This study theref...

Background: Problematic Internet use in adolescents has become an issue of concern for a growing number of researchers and institutions over the past years. Behavioural problems, social isolation, school failure and family problems are some of the consequences of psychological and behavioural impact on teenagers. Taking into account the interest that this issue has generated at many levels, the...

The current study examined problematic Internet use (PIU) among people who play MMO games and sought to determine whether aspects of the MMO experience are useful predictors of PIU. The study sought to determine whether game-related variables could predict PIU scores after accounting for their relationships with psychosocial well-being. Novel methods allowed us, for the first time, to connect i...

This study aims to analyze psychometric properties and validity of the Compulsive Internet Use Scale (CIUS) and the Internet Addiction Test (IAT) and, second, to determine a threshold for the CIUS which matches the IAT cut-off for detecting problematic Internet use. A total of 292 subjects with problematic or pathological gambling (237 men, 55 women) aged 14-63 years and with private Internet u...