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- Title
An Evaluation of Two Characterizations of the Relationships Between Problematic Internet Use, Time Spent Using the Internet, and Psychosocial Problems.
- Authors
Tokunaga, Robert S.; Rains, Stephen A.
- Abstract
This article reports tests of the relationships between problematic Internet use (PIU), time spent using the Internet, and psychosocial problems from the two perspectives. Ten individual meta-analyses were first conducted to identify weighted mean correlations among the five variables included within the models. The correlations derived from the meta-analyses were subsequently used in path analysis to test the alternative characterizations. The results offer some support for the deficient self-regulation model but provide relatively little evidence consistent with the pathology perspective of PIU.
- Subjects
INTERNET users; COMPULSIVE behavior; INTERNET; MENTAL illness; INTERNET addiction; COMPUTER networks
- Publication
Human Communication Research, 2010, Vol 36, Issue 4, p512
- ISSN
0360-3989
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1468-2958.2010.01386.x