Internet Addiction

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The society of today seems to have gone from a slow pace ideology to the instant gratification scenario, however and more important, it seems that this is a shell of other causes.

There are some medical professionals or mental health practitioners that firmly believe that there are some underlining causes that cause IAD, such as anxiety and depression.

Cyberpsychology (Lee, 2012) stated that “Internet addiction has been considered to be associated with poor impulse control”. Is there a correlation also to some form of gambling?

Additionally, the severity of Internet addiction has been positively correlated (Lee, 2012) with certain levels of trait impulsivity in the patients who have claimed to have Internet addiction. With these results that are stated, Internet addiction will possibly be conceptualized as an impulse control disorder and that that having this trait impulsivity is a control marker for clearly understanding the vulnerability in facing the causes of Internet addiction.

In the introduction to the article that was written by (Lortie, 2013) she states that regarding the use of internet is partially due to the various technological progress over the last tow decades, there is an increased use of internet use and other so called related activities. (Lortie, 2013) also states that there is a very strong correlation to due being a dysfunctional internet user that is associated with excessive computer use.

The commonality in people who are thought to experience their personal feelings of internet dependence do lose some type of control over their internet use and can be prone to suffer from feelings of withdrawal, conflicts and show signs of negative life consequences in a way similar way is that is observed in chemical or behavioral addictions .

In the conclusion of understanding internet addictions, there does seem to be one general consensus regarding all the heated debates throughout the years and that is the nature of excessive usage and whether is does or does not involve addiction, but more important the problematic behavior that goes beyond the computer screen, but enters the home and social circles as well.

References

Beins, A. & Beins, B. (2012) Effective Writing in Psychology: Papers, Posters, and Presentations

Kuss, D., Shorter, G., van Rooij, A., Griffiths, M., & Schoenmakers, T. (n.d). Assessing Internet Addiction Using the Parsimonious Internet Addiction Components Model-A Preliminary Study. International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, 12(3), 351-366.

Lee, H., Choi, J., Shin, Y., Lee, J., Jung, H., & Kwon, J. (2012). Impulsivity in Internet Addiction: A Comparison with Pathological Gambling. Cyberpsychology, Behavior & Social Networking, 15(7), 373-377. doi:10.1089/cyber.2012.0063

Lortie, C. L., & Guitton, M. J. (2013). Internet addiction assessment tools: dimensional structure and methodological status. Addiction, 108(7), 1207-1216.