Psychologic predictors and epidemiology of internet addiction among university students in greece

2011 ◽  
Vol 26 (S2) ◽  
pp. 40-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
C.C. Frangos ◽  
K.C. Fragkos

AimTo present the epidemiology and psychological predictors of Internet Addiction (IA) among Greek University students.MethodsThis random sample consisted of 3545 students, drawn from 24 higher education institutions (1618/1927 M/F, mean age 20.12 ± 2.4 years). The survey was conducted in the 4 Greek cities: Athens, Preveza, Thessaloniki and Amfissa.ResultsThe prevalence rates of IA according to Young's Test in the four cities were: Athens (17.5%), Preveza (15.9%), Thessaloniki (19.3%), Amfissa (16.3%). There was a statistically significant association between location and IA (χ2 = 28.251, df = 3, p < 0.001), gender and IA for males and females (p < 0.001). We performed a t-test with the dependent variable S = sum of scores in the psychological features of loneliness, feeling abandoned, disappointed, aimless in life, and with low self-esteem; the grouping variable was IA. Results showed that the variable S was much lower for the non-addicted than for addicted students (t = 19.329, p < 0.005, df = 3085). Binary logistic regression was performed to assess the impact of psychological characteristics on the likelihood that respondents would be Internet Addicted. The model was statistically significant χ2(10, N = 3085) = 316.3, p < 0.001. The model classified correctly 85.1% of the cases. The strongest predictors of IA were the following: Loneliness (OR = 2.15, 95% CI = 1.67-2.71), feeling abandoned (OR = 1.63, 95% CI = 1.2-2.1), low self-esteem (OR = 1.72, 95% CI = 1.4-2.1) and fear of losing their job (OR = 1.36, 95% CI = 1.01-1.7).ConclusionLoneliness, helplessness, low self-esteem and fear of unemployment are the strongest predictors of IA among Greek university students.

Healthcare ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
pp. 953
Author(s):  
Orhan Koçak ◽  
İlayda Yılmaz ◽  
Mustafa Z. Younis

Internet addiction has become a significant problem that primarily affects young people. It has an essential effect on the individual’s self-perception and assessment of their competencies. This study aimed to reveal whether there is a significant relationship between the level of internet addiction of university students and their age and self-esteem. For this purpose, internet addiction and self-esteem scales were used in addition to questions such as age, gender, the purpose of internet use, and internet daily usage time. We used a quantitative research method to obtain cross-sectional data from 400 Turkish young people using online surveys. Correlation, regression, mediation, and moderation analyses were performed using SPSS and the PROCESS macro plugin for data analysis. Internet addiction was significantly associated with self-esteem, gender, age, and daily internet usage. In addition, we discovered that self-esteem and daily usage time played a mediation role in the effect of the age variable on internet addiction. Moreover, the moderation roles of social networks, gender, and location in the impact of self-esteem on internet addiction were determined. With this study, we understood that as age increases, self-esteem triggers the decrease of internet addiction. In this sense, policies should be developed to increase self-esteem among young people to ensure the conscious use of the internet.


1970 ◽  
Vol 28 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Olufemi O. Desalu ◽  
Emmanuel O. Sanya ◽  
Adekunle O. Adeoti ◽  
Sunday A. Aderibigbe ◽  
Philip M. Kolo

BACKGROUND: Inconsistent operational definitions during asthma surveillance can lead to inaccurate estimation of disease burden and formulation of health policy. This study aimed to evaluate the impact of different definitions on the prevalence estimates and predictors of asthma among university students in Ilorin, Nigeria. The secondary aim was to compare level of agreement of the different definitions.METHODS: This cross-sectional study was carried out from June to August 2015. The European Community Respiratory Health Survey (ECRHS) questionnaire was self administered by 1485 students. Asthma diagnosis was based on five definitions used in previous studies in the country. These were ECRHS, International Study of Asthma, Allergies in Childhood (ISAAC), Probable, Modified ECRHS and Modified Probable asthma definitions.RESULTS: The prevalence rates varied from 10.4 to 24.1% depending on the definition. Prevalence obtained by using ECRHS definition significantly differed from estimates by other definitions (Z score ≥ 1.96 p<0.0001) except modified probable asthma. Identified predictors of asthma varied from five to six depending on the definition, and their strength also differed by definition. Regardless of the definition, reported nasal allergy, skin allergy, family history of nasal allergy, asthma and parental smoking were the predictors of asthma. The Kappa statistics demonstrated a fair to almost perfect association between the ECRHS and other asthma definitions (Kappa = 0.334-0.841, p < 0.001).CONCLUSION: The prevalence rates and predictors of asthma are affected by operational definitions. Researchers need to adopt a uniform definition for accurate estimation of disease burden, international comparison of result and formulation of prevention policy. 


2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 276-285
Author(s):  
Vitalii Y. Bocheliuk ◽  
Liana V. Spytska ◽  
Olena V. Mamicheva ◽  
Mykyta S. Panov ◽  
Viktoria V. Kordonets

Recently, the so-called post-COVID syndrome has been making itself felt more and more. Given the fact that diseases associated with coronavirus have acquired the character of an epidemic since the end of 2019, the features of the impact of this virus on the bodies of modern people have not yet been studied at all. The study analyses the features of post-COVID syndrome. The authors investigated the features of the course of "long COVID" in people with various psychological characteristics – anxiety, temperament, empathy, personality type. The study contains certain suggestions for providing psychological assistance to people with a predisposition to coronavirus neuroses. The purpose of the study is to identify the features of the course of post-COVID syndrome in different age, gender, socially stratified categories of the population; to analyse the influence of psychological characteristics of the personality on the specifics of manifestations of various symptoms of the post-COVID state. As a result of the study, it was identified that timely prevention of post-COVID syndrome should take place by developing special tests to determine the tendency to neurotic manifestations and psychoemotional disorders. It is necessary to create a methodology for getting out of the "long COVID" as soon as possible.


Author(s):  
Bhawini Vasudeva

The aim to conduct this research is to enlighten the impact of body image dissatisfaction on an individual’s self-esteem and to examine whether there is a gender difference in this case or not. There are a total of 220 numbers of participants, with equal number of males and females in the sample set. The tool that’d be using here is a modified short version of the Body Shape Questionnaire (BSQ) by Cooper et. Al. in the year in 1987 and The Rosenberg self-esteem scale by Morris Rosenberg (RSES) in the year 1965. The current research proved that whenever there’ll be higher body image dissatisfaction, it’ll result in less self-esteem. Other than that, it stated that females (M= 22.69 and SD= 3.64) have a higher mean score in body image dissatisfaction than and males (M=23.28 and SD= 3.6), therefore, the men have a higher mean score of self-esteem than females.


2020 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 11-20
Author(s):  
Sh. Aukhadieva ◽  
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N. Akhtaeva ◽  
A. Hananyan ◽  
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The study of the process of self-affirmation of the personality of adolescents allows us to speak about the relevance of this phenomenon in the interests of improving the effectiveness of team leaders to unite the latter and solve educational tasks. The purpose of the study was to study the features of self-affirmation of adolescent children. The author of the article considers the historical aspects of studying the psychological features of self-assertion, analyzes the conditions and opportunities for the manifestation and approval of a person’s individuality. The article substantiates the position that the success of self-affirmation is more related to the satisfaction of a person’s need to assess his /her activity, behavior, and personal qualities from the social environment than to the dissatisfaction of this need. The paper examines the psychological characteristics of adolescence. By self-affirmation of adolescents, the author understands the awareness of their personal significance, the level of their claims, and the formation of an adequate self-esteem. The author believes that the realization of the need for self-affirmation in adolescents is associated with two main conditions: the presence of a certain sphere of activity that will allow the teenager to fully Express and reveal himself; the presence of public recognition of his activities by others.


Author(s):  
Yu. Shabysheva ◽  
M. Sen'ko ◽  
N. Levochkina

The article considers the problem of personal self-realization. The article presents an analysis of scientific approaches to understanding the essence of this phenomenon. Particular attention is paid to issues of self-realization of personality in youth. The results of an empirical study indicate the presence of psychological characteristics of the self-realization of university students engaged in poetry in a literary association.


Author(s):  
Diachok O.V.

Мета статті полягає у дослідженні феномену самотності у підлітковому віці. Представлено результати емпіричного дослідження особливостей переживання самотності підлітками, які навчаються у закладах середньої освіти. Методи. У дослідженні використано такий діагностичний інструментарій: методику «Диференцій-ний опитувальник переживання самотності» (Є. Осін, Д. Леонтьєв); методику «Тест життєстійкості» (С. Мадді в адаптації Д. Леонтьєва, О. Расказової); методику «Емоційна самосвідомість» (О. Власова, М. Березюк); методику визначення рівня самооцінки Дембо-Рубінштейн (модифікацію А. Прихожан). Для обробки емпіричних даних були застосовані такі методи: описова статистика, t-критерій Стью-дента, кореляційний і кластерний аналіз. Результати.Дослідження було проведено на базі закладів середньої освіти міста Києва. В опитуванні брали участь учні середньої загальноосвітньої школи, спеціалізованої школи, ліцею, гімназії, гуманітарного ліцею, школи-інтернату та ліцею-інтернату, що дозволило отримати дані для подальшого детального аналіз у. Проаналізовано особливості переживання самотності підлітками, а також розкрито особливості пов’язаних із загальним станом самотності психологічних конструктів, таких як залежність від спілкування та позитивна самотність. Розкрито розвиток компонентів життєстійкості у сучасних підлітків, а саме включеності, контролю та прийняття ризику. Представлено результати порівняльного аналізу особливостей переживання самотності хлопцями та дівчатами. Враховуючи міру переживання самотності, рівень життєстійкості й емпатії, виділено чотири групи респондентів і розкрито психологічні особливості кожної групи. Висновки. З’ясовано, що переживання самотності є актуальним для підліткового віку та пов’язане з іншими психологічними характеристиками. Зокрема, виявлено обернені кореляційні зв’язки самотності із життєстійкістю, самооцінкою та емпатією. Визначено чотири групи підлітків на основі рівня загальної самотності, залежності від спілкування, позитивної самотності, рівня життєстійкості та самооцінки. Отримані результати дослідження будуть використані для розробки програми психологічного супроводу для підлітків, які мають труднощі у спілкуванні та болісно переживають самотність. Ключові слова:заклад середньої освіти, позитивна самотність, спілкування, життєстійкість, самооцінка, болісне переживання. Purpose. The goal of the article is to investigate the phenomenon of loneliness in adolescence. The results of the empirical study of the features of loneliness of adolescents studying in secondary education institutions are presented.Methods.The following diagnostic tools were used in the study: the methodology “Differential Questionnaire for Experiencing Loneliness” (E. Osin, D. Leont’ev); the method of “Test of vitality” (S. Maddi, in adaptation by D. Leont’ev, O. Raskazova); the method “Emotional self-awareness” (O. Vlasova, M. Berezyuk); the method of determining the level of self-esteem Dembo-Rubinstein (modification A. Prihozhan). The following methods were used to process the empirical data: descriptive statistics, Student’s t-test, correlation and cluster analysis.Results. The study was conducted on the basis of educational institutions of the city of Kiev. The survey was attended by students from secondary school, specialized school, lyceum, gymnasium, humanities lyceum, boarding school and boarding school, which provided data for further detailed analysis. The features of adolescent loneliness are analyzed in detail, as well as features related to the general state of loneliness of psychological constructs, such as dependence on communication and positive loneliness. The development of life-sustainability components in contemporary adolescents, namely inclusion, control, and risk-taking, is revealed. The results of the comparative analysis of the peculiarities of the loneliness of boys and girls are presented. Considering the measure of loneliness, the level of resilience and empathy, four groups of respondents were identified and the psychological characteristics of each group were revealed.Conclusions. It has been found that the experience of loneliness is relevant in adolescence and is associated with a number of other psychological characteristics. In particular, correlations between loneliness and vitality, self-esteem, and empathy have been identified. Four groups of adolescents have been identified, depending on their inherent measure of loneliness, level of resilience and self-esteem. The results of the study will be used to develop psychological training for adolescents who have difficulties in communication and are painfully lonely.Key words: school, positive loneliness, communication, vitality, self-esteem, painful experience.


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