Psychometric properties of the revised chen internet addiction scale ciasr in chinese adolescents. Methods the crosssectional study was conducted between may 7 and june 8, 2012, among secondary and high school students in sivrihisar, which is a district in rural part of anatolia, turkey. Just over half of the teenagers involved in the study have an inclination to internet addiction. In 1998, kimberly young developed the internet addiction test iat. Smartphones are popular media that are easier to access than other media. Psychometric properties of the revised chen internet addiction scale ciasr in chinese adolescents article pdf available in journal of abnormal child psychology 427 march 2014 with 2,369. M170206 santos v clinical global impressions cgi 44 and the young internet addiction scale iat.
The author pioneered the study on internet addiction, developing a structured internet addiction test iat on the basis of the dsmiv criteria diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders, 4 th edition for pathological gambling. Internet addiction inventory young, 1998 and psychological capital questionnaire luthans et al. One of the most common diagnostic instruments for internet addiction was proposed by young in 1996. S and beck anxiety scale were used as assessment tools for data collection. Game addiction is related to loneliness, anxiety, and depression all things you can also measure with psytoolkit, check the survey.
The minimum and maximum scores of the cias are 26 and 104, respectively. The bergen facebook addiction scale is a very short questionnaire which can. She founded the center for internet addiction in 1995, is a professor at st. The iat is a selfreport instrument for adolescents and adults. Psychometric properties of the internet addiction test in chinese adolescents.
However, how some people have come to use this communication medium has created a stir among the mental health community by great discussion of internet addiction. Internet addiction test by young and the internet addiction questionnaire kwestionariusz do. As new media are becoming daily fare, internet addiction appears as a potential problem in adolescents. Internet addiction is becoming widely recognized and acknowledged, particularly in countries where it is affecting large numbers of people, such as south korea, where it has been declared a national health problem.
Bonaventure university, and has published numerous articles and books, including caught in the net, the first to identify internet addiction, tangled in the web, internet addiction. Pdf psychometric properties of the revised chen internet. Pdf development of chinese internet addiction scale and. Internet addiction list of high impact articles ppts. Table 1 measures of internet addiction researchgate. While filling it you will realize how on the one hand internet use has become a compulsion in our daily life taking the shape of addiction slowly, and on the other hand it will serve to help me with my research on defining internet addiction. The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. Currently there are at least 5 scales being used most frequently in studies for diagnosing internet addiction or problematic internet use. Excessive or over use of the internet can be seen as a rewarding behavior, and through learning mechanisms, it may be used as an insufficient strategy to cope with some negative feelings du, jiang and vance 7. Development of the internet addiction scale based on the. Everybody knows that some people get addicted to computer games. The statements relate to your thoughts, feelings and actions in.
Internet addiction is considered a disorder in need of further. The role of internet addiction and social media membership. The internet addiction suite of tests brings together the internet addiction test iat and the internet addiction test for families iatf. Epidemiology of internet behaviors and addiction among adolescents in six asian countries.
Psychological aspects of internet addiction of teenagers. This scale is a 40item measure that was used in the nida cocainepsychotherapy study to evaluate mediators of outcome in drug counseling. Method a set of questionnaires were provided to a total of 540. This survey is a little effort to understand the current problem of internet addiction among the youth. Internet addiction is a controversial theorized mental disorder, the existence andor importance of which is still being debated among the psychological community. Zhichkina 2004 there were no respondents with internet addiction in the strict sense of the term. The purpose of present study was to find out correlation between the youths. Validation and psychometric analysis of the internet addiction test. A handbook and guide to evaluation and treatment provides an integrated and current overview of the different types of internet addictiongaming addiction, gambling addiction, and cybersex addiction. For example, the taiwan government and researchers wildly applied the chen internet addiction scale cias for adolescents and found that those surveys were usually adopted to assess the experiences of internet users for at least 6 months 4.
Full text clinical psychology of internet addiction. Research into internet addiction ia has grown rapidly over the last decade. From the reported negative consequences, it appears that internet addiction can have a variety of detrimental outcomes for young people that may require professional intervention. She has taught in the school counseling program for three years. It has also been reported that the screening cutoff of 58 points has high sensitivity but low specificity. To better understand the clinical implications of ia, this study tested statistically a new theoretical model illustrating underlying cognitive mechanisms contributing to development and maintenance of the disorder. The revised chen internet addiction scale ciasr was developed to assess internet addiction in chinese populations, but its psychometric properties in adolescents have not been examined. The authors deserve ample praise in providing such a comprehensive and informative guide for internet addiction. A preliminary psychometric study in an universitary andalusian sample universitas psychologica v. Internet addiction ia has become a serious mental health condition in many countries. Bonaventure university and director of the center for internet addiction recovery. In addition, it suggested cutting off the values by gender in order to determine smartphone addiction and elaborate the characteristics of smartphone usage in adolescents. Objective to determine the frequency of internet addiction and loneliness in secondary and high school students. Pdf assessment of internet addiction and loneliness in.
Internet addiction test iat is the most spread scale for measuring internet. The average time it takes for an addiction to the internet to make itself known. In this regard, inter rater reliability was calculated. It has only been evaluated in two studies and presented satisfactory psychometric properties. Internet addiction and psychological wellbeing among. Internet addicts develop an emotional attachment to online friends and get addicted to activities they create on the internet addiction is an impulse control disorder that does not involve use of any drug. Psychometric properties of the revised chen internet. The iat consists of 20 items which are scored using a fivepoint likert scale see additional file 1, and it is.
See also the psytoolkit implementation of the problematic internet use questionnaire. The model differentiates between a generalized internet addiction gia and specific forms. Facebook addiction is a specific form of internet addiction in which a person is addicted to checking facebook. The revised chen internet addiction scale ciasr the ciasr is a 26item selfreport questionnaire with a fourpoint likert scale ranging from 1 does not match my experience at all to 4 definitely matches my experience. Within the scope of construct validity, 50 items in the item pool were. The scale was created by adapting dsmiv criteria for pathological gambling and is a modification of the earlier 8 item scale, youngs internet addiction diagnostic questionnaire iadq. A read is counted each time someone views a publication summary such as the title, abstract, and list of authors, clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the fulltext. Adaptation of internet addiction scale in azerbaijani language eric. Being an article contributor has been a great experience, and has helped me improve all aspects of my modeling skills, especially model railroad photography. This study was conducted to develop and validate a standardized selfdiagnostic internet addiction ia scale based on the diagnosis criteria for internet gaming disorder igd in the diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorder, 5th edition dsm5.
The concurrent validity of the internet addiction test iat plos. The last part of the book will focus on therapeutic interventions for internet addiction. The gaming addiction scale measures the level of addiction. Although the purpose of its emergence was to reach secure, fast, inexpensive information. The internet addiction test emerged as the first validated measure of internet and technology addiction. These results were considered because the smartphone addiction scale sas is not designed to pathologically diagnose smartphone addiction but more to identify the level of the smartphone addiction risk and to distinguish the highrisk group. Articles in print i have been very fortunate to have three of my four completed model railroads, plus many other n scale projects featured in the pages of n scale railroading. Introduction the internet is a knowledge technology that has entered into every aspect of life as a means of information, trade and communication. A metaanalysis of the reliabilty of youngs internet addiction test constantinos c. Several factors affect the reliability of these studies, which is mainly depicted with cronbachs coef. However, its immense propagation, mainly within specific population groups like young people, contributed to internet addiction of young people, which. Internet addiction is an impulse control disorder that does not involve use of any drug and it is quite similar to pathological gambling. Encephalos 49, 6772, 2012 summary the technological development of internet was designed to promote research and communication among technological institutions as well as military services.
While this screening test may reveal some of the more pathological aspects of internet and smartphone use, it. This annotated bibliography includes a variety of resources related to the concept of internet addiction a disorder gaining increased attention as the use of the web, smart cell phones, and online computer games grows. Participants responses to most ipat subscales after controlling for demographic variables gender, age. This study investigated the association between the internet addiction test iat and the mobile phone dependence. Objective this study was designed to investigate the revised and short version of the smartphone addiction scale and the proof of its validity in adolescents. We evaluated the dimensions assessed by, and psychometric properties of, a range of questionnaires purporting to assess internet addiction.
So when analyzing the results according to the scale of internet addiction by a. Social media, addiction, student, scale development, reliability and validity. A metaanalysis of the reliabilty of youngs internet. Bergen facebook addiction scale bfas bfas is a sixitem questionnaire developed by andreassen and colleagues. Encephalos 49, 6772, 2012 adolescents and internet.
Items are based on the 12step approach to recovery i know that recovery from addiction is a lifelong process, when i experience craving, i go to a 12 step meeting, i havent gotten around to getting a sponsor, i rely on my higher power to help me. Development and validation of a game addiction scale for. The emergence of a new clinical disorder kimberly s. Internet addiction and psychological wellbeing among youths of rajkot district mohit m. Internet users have to spend a lot of time on selfreporting. Excessive internet use is becoming a concern, and some have proposed that it may involve addiction. Youngs internet addiction questionnaires 8 items and 20 items 1, 7 kos internet addiction scale 8 moreover for each scale there are various studies men tioning differing reliability coef. Treatment outcomes in patients with internet addiction and. Young, 1998 is a 20item scale that measures the presence and severity of internet dependency among adults. In 1998, kimberly young developed the internet addiction test iat to assess.
Problematic internet use piu or internet addiction disorder iad is characterized by excessive or poorly controlled preoccupations, urges, or behaviors regarding internet use that lead to impairment or distress. For each item tick the response alternative ranging from completely disagree to completely agree that best describes you. There were 300 students, from masters classes, as sample, selected through cluster sampling. Anyone travelling on public transportation can observe this phenomenon.
Development and validation of a game addiction scale for adolescents jeroen s. The iat views internet addiction as an impulsecontrol disorder and the term internet refers to all types of online activity. With regards to prevalence of internet addiction in adolescents, estimates vary widely across countries. The internet itself is a neutral device originally designed to facilitate research among academic and military agencies. Young university of pittsburgh at bradford published in cyberpsychology and behavior, vol. The draft scale prepared was assessed in terms of content by experts composed of five people. Researchers have now identified a number of activities and personality traits associated with internet addiction. Prevalence of internet addiction and risk of developing addiction as. Addictive use of the internet is a new and rapidly growing.
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