The researchers said the study only included men because 90% of the patients treated for behavioral addictions -- such as gambling, gaming or
internet addiction -- are men.
And it has been found to be associated with younger age internet users.1 Although
internet addiction (IA) is not included in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Health Disorder, Fifth Edition, its association was identified with various psychiatric conditions.2 People who spend more than 38 hours a week online, are considered to have an
Internet addiction.
Chartered psychologist and senior lecturer in psychology at Nottingham Trent University Daria Kuss explained what
internet addiction and especially gaming addiction means to the pupils and after her presentation talked to the Cyprus Mail.
Internet addiction, usage, gratifications, and pleasure experience: The Taiwan college student's case.
The results showed that the fear of missing out,
internet addiction, extroversion and neuroticism influence maladaptive responses, meaning the people most psychologically dependent on digital technology are most likely to have maladaptive responses when it goes wrong.
The detrimental effect of
internet addiction is an equally established finding.
FoMO has been found to be associated with problematic mobile phone use (Cheever, Rosen, Carrier, & Chavez, 2014; Elhai, Levine, Dvorak, & Hall, 2016; Hong, Chiu, & Huang, 2012) and phubbing behavior (Karadag et al, 2015), but also been suggested to be a key predictor of social media or Facebook addiction (Andreassen, 2015; Beyens, Frison, & Eggermont, 2016; Przybylski et al, 2013)- which in turn is also consistently predicted by
internet addiction. Moreover,
internet addiction has been shown to be an independent predictor of phubbing even accounting for social media addiction (Karadag et al., 2015).
Internet addiction not only reduces teenagers' sleep quality but also decreases their level of psychological health, and may even lead to self-injurious and risk-taking behavior (Chou et al., 2017; Oktan, 2015; Zhang et al., 2017).
1 for the most searches for "phone" or "
internet addiction."
COMEDIAN Russell Kane has said he is having counselling for
internet addiction.
Young (1996) indicates that
Internet addiction is a detriment to control and that it has a symptomatic display at the cognitive, behavioral and social levels; the excessive use of the Internet has consequences of distortion of personal, family and professional objectives.