Internet Addiction: Prevalence, Risk Factors and Health Effects

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According to the World Health Organization, pathological addiction is the psychic, and sometimes even physical, condition arising from the interaction between a living organism and an exogenous substance, characterized by behavioral responses and other reactions that always include a compulsive need to take the substance continuously or periodically, in order to get its psychic effects and/or to avoid the distress related to its withdrawal. This book presents a review on Internet addiction, which is considered an emergent problem especially amongst adolescents, and examines the risk factors and health effects of this addiction. Contents: Preface Chapter 1 Internet and Novel Technology Addiction: The Latest Epidemic Chapter 2 Towards an Epidemiological Model of Internet Addiction Chapter 3 Internet Addiction and Flow Experience Chapter 4 The Role of Attachment Style and Social Anxiety in Internet Addiction Chapter 5 The Mental Health Literacy of Internet Addiction among Adolescents: An Initial Measure Development and Validation Chapter 6 A Reflective Study of the Dilemmas in the Digital Addiction Policy of Korea Bibliography Index Contents......Page 6 Preface......Page 8 Abstract......Page 12 Introduction......Page 13 Internet and New Technology Addictions......Page 16 Conclusion......Page 18 References......Page 20 Abstract......Page 22 Introduction......Page 23 Epidemiology......Page 25 Predictors of Internet Addiction......Page 26 Consequences on Health......Page 27 Discussion......Page 29 References......Page 30 Abstract......Page 34 Introduction......Page 35 Internet Addiction and Quality of Flow Experience [2]......Page 36 References......Page 37 Abstract......Page 40 Introduction......Page 41 Internet Addiction: A Difficult Definition......Page 42 Social Anxiety......Page 44 Attachment Theory......Page 46 Anxious-Resistant/Ambivalent Insecure Attachment......Page 47 Disorganized/Disoriented Attachment......Page 48 Attachment in Adults......Page 49 Attachment Styles and Social Anxiety......Page 50 Social Anxiety, Attachment Style and Internet Addiction......Page 52 References......Page 54 Abstract......Page 64 Introduction......Page 65 Materials......Page 67 Psychometric Analyses......Page 68 Results......Page 69 Discussion......Page 73 References......Page 75 Biographical Sketch......Page 78 Abstract......Page 82 1. Introduction......Page 83 2. Policy Dilemma Theory......Page 84 3.1. History of the Digital Addiction Countermeasure Policy......Page 86 3.2. Current Situation of Digital Addiction......Page 87 4.1. Dilemma in the Cause and True Nature of Digital Addiction......Page 89 4.2. Dilemma of Business-Centered Entities among the Government Departments......Page 94 4.3. Dilemma in the Division of Roles and Cooperation among the Central and Local Governments and the Citizens......Page 97 5. Conclusion......Page 100 References......Page 101 Bibliography......Page 104 Division for Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, Ministry of Social Affairs and Social Services Jerusalem, Israel......Page 136 Bonding and Internet Addiction in Hong Kong*......Page 137 Bonding and Internet Addiction in Adolescent Boys and Girls in Hong Kong*......Page 138 Internet Addiction Phenomenon in Early Adolescents in Hong Kong*......Page 139 Development of an Integrated Intervention Model for Internet Addiction in Hong Kong*......Page 140 Internet Addiction, Media Use, and Difficulties Associated with Sleeping in Adolescents*......Page 141 Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine, Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States of America......Page 142 Family Functioning, Positive Youth Development and Internet Addiction in Junior Secondary School Students: Structural Equation Models using AMOS*......Page 143 Internet Addiction in Chinese Adolescents in Hong Kong: Assessment, Profiles and Psychosocial Correlates *......Page 144 Internet Addiction in Hong Kong Adolescents: Profiles and Psychosocial Correlates*......Page 145 Internet Addiction Phenomenon in Early Adolescents in Hong Kong*......Page 146 Internet Addiction and Antisocial Internet Behavior of Adolescents*......Page 147 Index......Page 148 Blank Page......Page 0