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Author(s) -
Farah Camile S.
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
australian dental journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.701
H-Index - 71
eISSN - 1834-7819
pISSN - 0045-0421
DOI - 10.1111/adj.12728
Subject(s) - medicine , foundation (evidence) , medical education , witness , translational research , management , family medicine , public relations , political science , pathology , law , economics
The IAT measures the severity of self-reported compulsive use of the Internet for adults and adolescents. Results from the IAT should be interpreted with caution among clinical populations that suffer from psychiatric conditions concurrent with compulsive syndromes. The scale was created by adapting DSM-IV criteria for pathological gambling and is a modification of the earlier 8 item scale, Young’s Internet Addiction Diagnostic Questionnaire (IADQ). The IAT views Internet addiction as an impulse-control disorder and the term Internet refers to all types of online activity. The IAT is the most widely used Internet addiction scale and the test has been translated in several languages including English, Chinese, French, Italian, Turkish, and Korean.