The widespread use of internet has caused new psychological, social, and educational problems for the students. The aim of this study was to examine the quality of life in medical students who suffer from internet addiction. This cross-sectional survey was carried out in Tehran University of Medical Sciences, and a total of 174 fourth-to seventh-year undergraduate medical students were enrolled...

The phenomenon of excessive or pathological Internet use has been investigated in the last decades in order to reveal psychological correlates as well as potential treatments. A key element of the respective research and clinical practice is a valid and reliable diagnosis of pathological Internet use. One of the most frequently used questionnaires is Young's Internet Addiction Test (IAT). Howev...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Research into Internet addiction (IA) has increased greatly over the last decade. Despite its various definitions and general lack of consensus regarding its conceptualisation amongst researchers, instruments for measuring this phenomenon have proliferated in a number of countries. There has been little research on IA in Portugal and this may be partly due to the absence of ...

Background: Although the internet has prevailed in every aspect of our life, it can be addictive, especially for the adolescents. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between internet addiction in female school students and their mothers’ mental health and spiritual wellbeing. Methods: This is a descriptive correlational study conducted on 400 senior high school female students and...

Se analizaron los factores de riesgo del uso internet en estudiantes universitarios Puerto Rico y España. utilizaron instrumentos Internet Addiction Test (IAT), Brief Self-Control Scale (BSCS), Depression, Anxiety and Stress (DASS-21) Academic Procrastination (APS) para el propósito la investigación. realizaron análisis regresión logística binomial determinar cómo autocontrol, depresión, ansied...

With the development of the Internet, an increasing number of adolescents play online game excessively, which leads to adverse effects on individuals and society. Previous studies have demonstrated altered gray-matter volume (GMV) in individuals with Internet gaming disorder (IGD), but the relationship between the tendency to IGD and the GMV across whole brain is still unclear in adolescents. I...

OBJECTIVES To explore the association between peripheral blood dopamine level and internet addiction disorder (IAD) in adolescents, this could be used to explain the neurobiological mechanism of Internet addiction disorder. METHODS 33 adolescents with IAD diagnosed by Young's Internet Addiction Test (IAT) and 33 healthy controls matched by gender and age were investigated in the present study...

INTRODUCTION This study was initiated to determine the psychometric properties of the Smart Phone Addiction Scale (SAS) by translating and validating this scale into the Malay language (SAS-M), which is the main language spoken in Malaysia. This study can distinguish smart phone and internet addiction among multi-ethnic Malaysian medical students. In addition, the reliability and validity of th...

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...