Open Access<p>Relationships between Internet addiction and clinicodemographic and behavioral factors</p>
Author(s) -
Muhammad ElSalhy,
Takahiro Miyazaki,
Yoshihiro Noda,
Shinichiro Nakajima,
Hideki Nakayama,
Satoko Mihara,
Takashi Kitayuguchi,
Susumu Higuchi,
Taro Muramatsu,
Masaru Mimura
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
neuropsychiatric disease and treatment
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.819
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1178-2021
pISSN - 1176-6328
DOI - 10.2147/ndt.s193357
Subject(s) - addiction , medicine , the internet , distress , clinical psychology , behavioral addiction , psychological distress , scale (ratio) , psychiatry , mental health , world wide web , physics , quantum mechanics , computer science
While the Internet became an indispensable component of our contemporary life, public and academic attention is also gathered to its negative impact, namely Internet addiction (IA). Although clinicodemographic and behavioral factors are hypothetically implicated in the mechanism of IA, it still remains largely unknown how such factors are linked to IA severity. Thus, this study sought to examine relationships among IA severity and factors potentially associated with IA in Japanese students in different educational stages.