Social-emotional model of internet addiction


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SAVCI M., AYSAN F.

PSYCHIATRY AND CLINICAL PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY, vol.27, no.4, pp.349-358, 2017 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 27 Issue: 4
  • Publication Date: 2017
  • Doi Number: 10.1080/24750573.2017.1367552
  • Journal Name: PSYCHIATRY AND CLINICAL PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY
  • Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Page Numbers: pp.349-358
  • Keywords: Internet addiction, negative affection, social anxiety, self-monitoring, willingness to self-censor, UNIVERSITY-STUDENTS, SELF-CENSOR, ANXIETY, ADOLESCENTS, DEPRESSION, SYMPTOMS, VALIDITY, WILLINGNESS, ASSOCIATION, RELIABILITY
  • Dokuz Eylül University Affiliated: Yes

Abstract

Objective: The purpose of this study is to test the social-emotional model of internet addiction which was built by considering theoretical explanations and study results. For this general purpose, the following hypotheses have been tested: willingness to self-censor significantly, positively, and directly affects social anxiety, self-monitoring significantly, negatively, and directly affects social anxiety, social anxiety significantly, positively, and directly affects negative affection, negative affection significantly, positively, and directly affects daily internet use duration and internet addiction, daily internet use duration significantly, positively, and directly affects internet addiction.