Objective: Psychologists have warned about the disadvantages of overusing Internet and a new kind of addiction named Internet addiction. The present study intended to review the role of both sensation seeking (directly and indirectly, by mediation of attachment styles) and attachment styles (directly) in Internet addiction. Methods: The present research was a cross-sectional study. Statistical...

Although the internet has become one of the most important information resources for university students, excessive internet use can be defined as uncontrolled and harmful use of the internet, in other words, Internet Addiction. Internet addiction (IA) can be described as a maladaptive preoccupation with internet use impairing social, occupational and other areas of a person’s functioning. Rece...

the purpose of this paper is to study the social aspects of nativization of using the internet by describing the manner of interaction of the users with the internet and the manner of application of the qualitative research method. to do so, the writer has first studied the characteristics of the information society, methods of using information and communication technology and the conceptual f...

Objectives: One of the problems that the Internet has created is a virtual addiction or addiction to the global web world causing adverse psychological behavioral effects on the users. One of the groups at higher risk for Internet addiction is teenagers, and since Internet addiction will lead to academic failure in students, evaluating it among them and its relationship with signs of mental dis...

objective: the objective of this study was to assess the prevalence of addiction to the internet, computer games, dvd, and video and its relationship to anxiety and depression in a sample of iranian high school students. methods: in this cross-sectional study 1020 high school students (males and females) were selected randomly from different areas of shiraz city in southern iran. they were inte...

conclusions internet gaming addiction may cause severe personal, social, and occupational problems. despite the range of severity and various presentations of this disorder, dsm-5 lacks the severity classifier. early identification and management may result in complete recovery. case presentation we reported a case of two brothers, diagnosed with internet gaming addiction, who showed grossly di...