Internet addiction and psychiatric symptoms among Korean adolescents.
Background: The aims of this study were to identify the independent factors associated with intermittent addiction and addiction to the Internet and to examine the psychiatric symptoms in Korean adolescents when the demographic and Internet-related factors were controlled. Methods: Male and female s...
| Publicado en: | Journal of School Health Vol. 78; no. 3; pp. 165 - 172 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Mar2008
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=105750848&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 105750848 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 00224391 JOS jtl: Journal of School Health issn: 00224391 maglogo: Y pubinfo: dt: Mar2008 vid: 78 iid: 3 pid: 480 pub: Wiley-Blackwell place: Malden, Massachusetts artinfo: ui: 105750848 30454678 2009819333 10.1111/j.1746-1561.2007.00279.x NLM18307612 105750848 ppf: 165 ppct: 7 formats: tig: atl: Internet addiction and psychiatric symptoms among Korean adolescents. aug: au: Jang KS Hwang SY Choi JY affil: College of Nursing, Chonam National University, Chonam Research Institute of Nursing Science, 5 Hak-dong, Dong-gu, Gwangju 501-746, Republic of Korea. sug: subj: Adolescent Behavior Internet Addiction In Adolescence Internet Addiction Symptoms Koreans Adolescence Analysis of Variance Chi Square Test Coefficient alpha Confidence Intervals Cross Sectional Studies Data Analysis Software Depression Descriptive Research Descriptive Statistics Female Funding Source Human Internet Addiction Prevention and Control Male Multiple Logistic Regression Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Odds Ratio P-Value Psychological Tests Scales School Nursing Schools, Secondary Self Report Severity of Illness Students, High School Summated Rating Scaling Surveys Symptom Checklist-90-Revised Adolescent: 13-18 years Female Male ab: Background: The aims of this study were to identify the independent factors associated with intermittent addiction and addiction to the Internet and to examine the psychiatric symptoms in Korean adolescents when the demographic and Internet-related factors were controlled. Methods: Male and female students (N = 912) in the 7th-12th grades were recruited from 2 junior high schools and 2 academic senior high schools located in Seoul, South Korea. Data were collected from November to December 2004 using the Internet-Related Addiction Scale and the Symptom Checklist-90-Revision. A total of 851 subjects were analyzed after excluding the subjects who provided incomplete data. Results: Approximately 30% (n = 258) and 4.3% (n = 37) of subjects showed intermittent Internet addiction and Internet addiction, respectively. Multivariate logistic regression analysis showed that junior high school students and students having a longer period of Internet use were significantly associated with intermittent addiction. In addition, male gender, chatting, and longer Internet use per day were significantly associated with Internet addiction. When the demographic and Internet-related factors were controlled, obsessive-compulsive and depressive symptoms were found to be independently associated factors for intermittent addiction and addiction to the Internet, respectively. Conclusions: Staff working in junior or senior high schools should pay closer attention to those students who have the risk factors for intermittent addiction and addiction to the Internet. Early preventive intervention programs are needed that consider the individual severity level of Internet addiction. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: research tables/charts Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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