Annotated Bibliography for Internet Addiction
Lisa Comtaruk
October 27, 2017
Bishop, J. (2015). Psychological and Social Implications Surrounding Internet and Gaming Addiction. Hershey, PA: Information Science Reference, an imprint of IGI Global.
The book focuses on the negative side of technology and how people fall prey to gambling and gaming addiction (Bishop, 2015).
Cash, H., Rae, C. D., Steel, A. H., & Winkler, A. (2012). Internet Addiction: A Brief Summary of Research and Practice. Current Psychiatry Reviews, 8(4), 292–298. http://doi.org/10.2174/157340012803520513
This study serves to analyze internet addiction disorder (IAD) among working clients. As such, the author tries to bring out this issue as an important matter of concern that
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(2017). Internet addiction: Neuroscientific Approaches and Therapeutical Implications including Smartphone Addiction. Cham, Switzerland: Springer
The book summarizes the therapeutic and theoretical models dealing with the internet addiction
Pezoa-Jares R.E., Espinoza-Luna I.L., & Vasquez-Medina J.A. (2012) Internet Addiction: A Review. J Addict Res Ther S6:004. doi:10.4172/2155-6105.S6-004
The article explains the prevalent of the addiction among adolescents and young people, and adults. Thus, it outlines possible treatment methods for the AID.
Romano, M., Osborne, L. A. Truzoli, R., & Reed, R. (2012). Differential Psychological Impact of Internet Exposure on Internet Addicts. PLoS ONE, 8(2): e55162. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0055162
Romano et al. (2012). Provide the findings on a study on the immediate impact of the internet exposure in the psychological states and moods of internet addicts as compared to the low internet users.
Shaigan, A., & Khushgeet, K. (2014). A Study of Internet Addiction and Its Impact on Academic Performance of University Students. International Journal of Education and Management Studies,
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The article will expound more on the magnitude of the problem.
Tran, B. A. et al. (2017). A study on the influence of internet addiction and online interpersonal influences on health-related quality of life in young Vietnamese. BMC Public Health, 17:138, https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-016-3983-z
This article explores Internet Abdication in young people in Vietnam and other Asian nation, and how gender affects the addiction. It provides healthcare professionals effective intervention that can be used to counter negative effects of IA.
Wu, C-Y., Lee, M-B., Liao, S-C., Chang, L-R. (2015). Risk Factors of Internet Addiction among Internet Users: An Online Questionnaire Survey. PLoS ONE, 10(10): e0137506. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0137506
This study provides information on the prevalence of IA and its associated psychopathological and psychosocial determinants in different internet user groups based on their ages.
Xu, J., Shen, L., Yan, C., Hu, H., Yang, F., Wang, L., … Shen, X. (2012). Personal characteristics related to the risk of adolescent internet addiction: a survey in Shanghai, China. BMC Public Health, 12, 1106.
doi:10.1177/1049731506295406 Liese, B. S., & Esterline, K. M. (2015).
And for example, a person who is addicted to pornography is usually a person who is physically and emotionally detached from other. With the increase on cybersex, pornography have become more available and easier to access than ever before, increasing the problem of pornography addiction. With increased availability, reduced costs, and greater anonymity, this problem is spreading wider than ever before, some have suggested that this false sense intimacy offered by the internet is more destructive than anything our society have
Gautheir et al., 2004; Hoeve et al., 2012; Taylor & McQuillan, 2014; Whelan,
reSTART is a $14,500 forty-five-day program that helps people get rid of their addiction problems by doing outdoor activities like building chicken coops, cooking hamburgers, and engaging in therapy in an outdoor setting. Beato then proceeds to give incidents where addiction has caused some people to lose jobs, and some to do outrageous things like a teen in Ohio shooting his mother and father for taking away his Xbox, or how 200 students at a university went for 24-hours without social media, some of them stating that they felt “miserable, and crazy.” In a 2009 study it was found that 3 to 6 percent of internet users were addicted and that over the years internet addiction has the potential to grow more than any other addiction. Although internet addiction is not being included on the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the American Psychiatric Association will think about adding it to the “behavioral addictions” category as more research data is
Also, McLaughlin inform us about a 40-year-old mother of three, Julie Donahue self-described as online addict,started out frequenting message boards. She says, “ over time, it fed my ego. When i was feeling overwhelmed at home, i could log on and feel like i was in control of my world again. “Web surfing became a haven for julie”(491), says McLaughlin. She did not know it was killing the the beautiful relationship from her family, until she later realised it when her husband pulled the plug on her online activities.
Accessed 5 Mar. 2017. Dieris-Hirche, Jan, et al. “Media Use and Internet Addiction in Adult Depression: A Case-Control Study.” Computers in Human Behavior, vol. 68, Mar. 2017, pp. 96–103.
Behavioral changes from one generation to the next naturally occur little by little. Nonetheless, changes in adolescent behavior from the millennial generation triumphing it have been substantial and revolutionary. Today’s teens have never witnessed a world without internet. The majority of them possess smartphones and waste several hours each week on social media. But while numerous parents may feel allayed about their teens’ seeming uninterested in drinking, driving and dating, they could perhaps be overlooking the effects that continuous internet access has on their teens’ mental well-being.
As humans we tend to respond to these feelings causing us to become completely addicted to not only the information we can access on our electronic devices but also the way it makes us feel when we get information sent to us as well. This article also touches on the fact that we tend to be unable to refrain from checking a text or email when we know we received
There is a debate whether there is such a thing as a “addictive personality. Earlier psychoanalysts confirmed that there was such a thing as an "addictive personality". New information allows us to refine our understanding of addiction (Johnson, 2003) . By definition, addiction is a behavior over which the person has impaired control, and which is associated with harmful consequences (Meyer, Rahman, Shepherd, 2007) One type of addiction is a character type; a second is a biological disorder.
Internet usage leads us to have low self-esteem and depression whenever we are not interacting with anyone. It is because we feel lonely as we do not have someone to chat and contact with constantly. Internet addiction eventually caused the users
(Beck et al, 1983; Kriplani et al, 2005; Purty et al,
Neurological case studies were performed by Griffiths, Young, Turel, Serenko, and Giles to identify the cause of addictive-like behavior towards social media. The study focused namely on “Facebook,” the physical anatomy and structures of the brain cortex, and overall neurological system. Each scientist questioned whether or not “... Facebook addiction constitute[s] a pathological problem similar to those observed in the case of other substance and behavioral addictions in the general user population.” The scientists then hypothesized that an irregular distribution of homeostasis in the inhibitory and impulsive controlled regions of the brain are responsible for the addictive-like behaviors evoked from the use of Facebook; for this is the independent variable of the study.
A study conducted by Tsitsika and Janikan in 2013 stated that the usage of the internet continuously grow. About 32.7% of the world’s population has access to the social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Wikis and many more which let people to share their interests easily with others everywhere. So the reciprocal connectedness all over the world is growing rapidly due to the use of the internet. When students use technological gadgets like laptops and others by the
Social networking addiction are growing among teenagers. They are spending more time on social media rather than communicate with others in their daily life. If uncontrolled by parents, young peoples can get addicted to social network. C. Someone who stressed and depressed will easily cause social networking addiction, consequently it may leads to many problems which is wasting time and social isolation. II.
The effect of internet on social capital Messaging and social networking is the most used internet function, which allows one to communicate not only with their family, friends or colleagues, but also with anonymous people. The internet can supplement face-to-face or telephone contacts. But the Internet may isolate individuals and reduce the time spent participating in social activities, especially if Internet users are mainly engaged in solitary activities (web-surfing, news reading, etc.). For example, Attewell, Suazo-Garcia and Battle (2003) showed that adolescents with a home computer spend less time practicing sports or playing outside. Moreover, face-to face interactions are typically richer than virtual