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Cognitive deficits in problematic internet use : meta-analysis of 40 studies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
© The Royal College of Psychiatrists 2019. This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and ...
Chamberlain, Samuel R   +6 more
core   +2 more sources

Are There Different Understandings on Excessive Use of Smartphone between Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Department of Management EngineeringSmartphone is no longer instruments for connecting each other. These days, the people engages in an online activities such as searching in internet, sending email, playing social games, engagement in social networking ...
Ahn, Juyeon
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A Qualitative Analysis of Online Gaming: [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
The popularity of Massively Multi-Player Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPGs) has risen dramatically over the last decade. Some gamers spend many hours a day in these virtual environments interacting with others gamers, completing quests, and forming ...
I.Brown   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Internet addiction and associated factors among medical and allied health sciences students in northern Tanzania: a cross-sectional study

open access: yesBMC Psychology, 2020
Background Internet addiction is one of the fast-growing addictive behaviors and is a significant public health problem affecting a large number of people worldwide. Excessive use of the internet among university students increases their risk of internet
Innocent B. Mboya   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

An exploratory study on internet addiction, somatic symptoms and emotional and behavioral functioning in school-aged adolescents [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Objective: In the last two decades there has been a significant transformation regarding the use of new technologies. Despite growing acknowledgement concerning the different activities and functions of digital technologies, there remains a lack of ...
Cerutti, R.   +5 more
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Social Networking Sites Addiction and Materialism Among Chinese Adolescents: A Moderated Mediation Model Involving Depression and Need to Belong

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2020
Recent research indicates that social networking site (SNS) addiction is positively associated with materialism. However, little attention has been paid to the potential mechanisms in this relationship.
Pengcheng Wang   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Adolescent social networking: should parents and teachers be worried? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Over the past few years, there has been a significant increase in the number of media stories about social networking. This has also led to a recent upsurge in the amount of empirical research being carried out.
Griffiths, MD, Kuss, DJ
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Investigating the differential effects of social networking site addiction and Internet gaming disorder on psychological health [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Background and aims: Previous studies focused on examining the interrelationships between social networking site (SNS) addiction and Internet gaming disorder (IGD) in isolation.
Aarseth   +175 more
core   +4 more sources

Psychometric Indicators and Adaptation of the Ukrainian Version of the Social Networking Addiction Scale (M.G. Shahnawaz, U. Rehman Social Networking Addiction Scale)

open access: yesВісник Харківського національного університету імені В.Н. Каразіна. Серія: Психологія
The article presents the results of adapting the Social Networking Addiction Scale (M.G. Shahnawaz, U. Rehman) for use in Ukrainian samples of subjects.
Pavlo Sevostianov   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Problematic Internet Use and Problematic Online Gaming Are Not the Same: Findings from a Large Nationally Representative Adolescent Sample [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
There is an ongoing debate in the literature whether problematic internet use (PIU) and problematic online gaming (POG) are two distinct conceptual and nosological entities or whether they are the same.
Demetrovics, Z   +7 more
core   +1 more source

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