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20 Citations
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Problematic Internet Use among Youths

  • Łukasz Tomczyk,
  • Michał Szyszka and
  • Lazar Stošić

Problematic Internet Use (PIU) has of late come to the major attention of researchers of risky behaviours. For parents and teachers in turn, the various pathological forms of Internet use have become more and more noticeable. In recent years, the ope...

  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
9,860 Views
27 Pages

Investigating the Effect of Personality, Internet Literacy, and Use Expectancies in Internet-Use Disorder: A Comparative Study between China and Germany

  • Benjamin Stodt,
  • Matthias Brand,
  • Cornelia Sindermann,
  • Elisa Wegmann,
  • Mei Li,
  • Min Zhou,
  • Peng Sha and
  • Christian Montag

Research on Internet-use Disorder (IUD) has increased rapidly, indicating its clinical and global importance. Past studies suggested cultural diversity regarding the prevalence of an IUD, e.g., between Asian and European countries. Additionally, it w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
6,906 Views
14 Pages

The impact of internet use on quality of life (QoL) has become an increasing focus of academic research. This paper aims to explore the internal influencing mechanisms of internet use (i.e., leisure-oriented internet use (LIU); work-oriented internet...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,267 Views
14 Pages

The aims of this cross-sectional study were: (i) to establish the prevalence of problematic Internet use (PIU) and eating disorders (EDs) among Polish students; (ii) to investigate potential correlations between the two phenomena; and (iii) to identi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,692 Views
19 Pages

Internet Use and Better-Informed Divorce in China

  • Jindian Liu,
  • Ning Neil Yu,
  • Mingwang Cheng and
  • Chunyan Wu

15 February 2023

China has witnessed a rapid expansion in Internet penetration in recent years, with profound impacts on people’s family life and marital relationships. This paper aims to examine the causal effects and functionary of information access through...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,837 Views
14 Pages

Problematic Internet Use (PIU) is a broad term that covers problems with Internet use that result in psychological, social, academic or professional difficulties. The aim of our study was to identify individuals particularly vulnerable to developing...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,475 Views
16 Pages

We explore the causal effects of Internet use on job satisfaction using a sample of 83,012 Chinese labor force members aged 16–64 years from the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) from 2010 to 2018. We use ordered logistic estimation and find th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,992 Views
12 Pages

Validation of an Instrument for Detecting Problematic Internet Use in Adolescents

  • Mateo Pérez-Wiesner,
  • Kora-Mareen Bühler and
  • Jose Antonio López-Moreno

15 August 2024

Problematic internet use (PIU) has drawn attention due to its potentially negative consequences on individuals’ social and personal lives. At present, a consensus on diagnostic criteria for problematic internet use remains elusive, leaving unce...

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  • Open Access
93 Citations
13,931 Views
11 Pages

Loneliness and Problematic Internet Use during COVID-19 Lock-Down

  • Hasah Alheneidi,
  • Loulwah AlSumait,
  • Dalal AlSumait and
  • Andrew P. Smith

6 January 2021

(1) Background: During the COVID-19 pandemic, strict lock-down and quarantine were widely imposed by most governments to minimize the spread of the virus. Previous studies have investigated the consequences of the quarantine and social isolation on m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,086 Views
18 Pages

The Impact of Internet Use on the Well-Being of Rural Residents

  • Longjunjiang Huang,
  • Xian Liang,
  • Lishan Li,
  • Hui Xiao and
  • Fangting Xie

With the full penetration of the Internet, the Internet has had a great impact on the production and life of rural residents. The article takes a rural residents’ group as its research object to explore the impact mechanism. Leveraging data fro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,885 Views
15 Pages

Profiles of Internet Use and Health in Adolescence: A Person-Oriented Approach

  • Henri Lahti,
  • Nelli Lyyra,
  • Lauri Hietajärvi,
  • Jari Villberg and
  • Leena Paakkari

(1) Background: Internet use has become an integral part of adolescents’ daily lives. It is important to understand how adolescents use the internet, and how this use is associated with demographic factors and health from a person-oriented perspectiv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,671 Views
14 Pages

Internet use may reduce the impact of the neighborhood on residents’ well-being by helping people utilize resources beyond their immediate neighborhoods or strengthen neighborhood influences by widening the digital divide across neighborhoods....

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,907 Views
14 Pages

Compulsive Internet and Prevalence Substance Use among Spanish Adolescents

  • Sonia Fernández-Aliseda,
  • Angel Belzunegui-Eraso,
  • Inma Pastor-Gosálbez and
  • Francesc Valls-Fonayet

This paper analyses compulsive Internet use among Spanish adolescents as measured by the Compulsive Internet Use Scale (CIUS) of the ESTUDES 2016 survey (national survey on drug use in secondary schools), which was recently added to the statistical p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
71 Citations
7,908 Views
16 Pages

The Impact of Internet Use on Income: The Case of Rural Ghana

  • Anthony Siaw,
  • Yuansheng Jiang,
  • Martinson Ankrah Twumasi and
  • Wonder Agbenyo

17 April 2020

This study analyzed the effects of internet use on farm income and household income using survey data from 478 rural farmers from two regions in Ghana. An endogenous switching regression (ESR) model and probit models were employed to achieve the aims...

  • Review
  • Open Access
30 Citations
5,984 Views
14 Pages

Problematic Internet Use and Resilience: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

  • Sergio Hidalgo-Fuentes,
  • Manuel Martí-Vilar and
  • Yolanda Ruiz-Ordoñez

24 February 2023

Problematic Internet use has become a major problem worldwide due to its numerous negative correlates in the field of health, both mental and physical, and its increasing prevalence, making it necessary to study both its risk and protective factors....

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  • Article
  • Open Access
77 Citations
12,999 Views
33 Pages

The field of technological behavioural addictions is moving towards specific problems (i.e., gaming disorder). However, more evidence of generalised versus specific Internet use-related addiction problems (generalised pathological Internet use (GPIU)...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
5,211 Views
17 Pages

School-Related Risk Factors of Internet Use Disorders

  • Sophie Kindt,
  • Carolin Szász-Janocha,
  • Florian Rehbein and
  • Katajun Lindenberg

A growing body of research focusing on the risk factors of Internet use disorder (IUD) underlines the effect of sociodemographic variables like age and gender or comorbid mental disorders on IUD symptoms. The relation between IUD symptoms and school-...

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  • Open Access
510 Views
16 Pages

Psychosocial Variables Related to Problematic Internet Use Among Adolescents

  • Esther Fernández-García,
  • Sofía Buelga and
  • María-Jesús Cava

Problematic Internet use is a major health issue among adolescents, underscoring the need for further research on the variables related to this dysfunctional usage pattern. This study examined the predictive capacity of four indicators of psychosocia...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,765 Views
13 Pages

Based on the cognitive behavioral model of pathological Internet use and the gender role theory, this present study investigated the association between the need for distinctiveness and pathological Internet use. Additionally, we explored a mediating...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,108 Views
16 Pages

Predictors of Problematic Internet Use Among Romanian High School Students

  • Brigitte Osser,
  • Csongor Toth,
  • Carmen Delia Nistor-Cseppento,
  • Mariana Cevei,
  • Cristina Aur,
  • Maria Orodan,
  • Roland Fazakas and
  • Laura Ioana Bondar

24 September 2025

Background: Problematic internet use among adolescents is linked to poorer mental health, academic performance, and social functioning, yet evidence from Eastern Europe remains limited. Methods: We conducted a school-based cross-sectional study at a...

  • Brief Report
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,500 Views
10 Pages

Perception of Internet Use in Relation to Health Decision-Making among Nursing Students

  • José A. Zafra-Agea,
  • Noelia Calvillo-Nuñez,
  • Òscar Gil-Jiménez and
  • Ivan Hellín-Pijuan

Internet use has increased worldwide during the COVID-19 pandemic, to the point where it has inadvertently integrated into our lives. University students use the Internet daily for different purposes: seeking information, entertaining, as a teaching...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,516 Views
10 Pages

Purpose: This study aimed to identify the factors associated with Internet use duration by distinguishing between individuals with suicidal ideation and those without. Methods: Data were obtained from the 14th Korea Youth Risk Behavior Web-Based Surv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,604 Views
15 Pages

16 December 2022

Entrepreneurship and innovation are important driving forces for economic sustainable development. Despite the rapid popularity of the Internet in rural areas, whether—and if so, how—the Internet use may affect farmer entrepreneurship rem...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
4,090 Views
17 Pages

24 June 2022

Dietary patterns in China have changed dramatically over the past few decades as the Internet has become rapidly available. Based on data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey (2006–2011), we use a two-way fixed effects model and an instru...

  • Article
  • Open Access
215 Citations
30,362 Views
15 Pages

Internet Risks: An Overview of Victimization in Cyberbullying, Cyber Dating Abuse, Sexting, Online Grooming and Problematic Internet Use

  • Juan M. Machimbarrena,
  • Esther Calvete,
  • Liria Fernández-González,
  • Aitor Álvarez-Bardón,
  • Lourdes Álvarez-Fernández and
  • Joaquín González-Cabrera

The advance of digital media has created risks that affect the bio-psycho-social well-being of adolescents. Some of these risks are cyberbullying, cyber dating abuse, sexting, online grooming and problematic Internet use. These risks have been studie...

  • Article
  • Open Access
92 Citations
11,491 Views
17 Pages

Profiles of Problematic Internet Use and Its Impact on Adolescents’ Health-Related Quality of Life

  • Juan M. Machimbarrena,
  • Joaquín González-Cabrera,
  • Jéssica Ortega-Barón,
  • Marta Beranuy-Fargues,
  • Aitor Álvarez-Bardón and
  • Blanca Tejero

The internet has been a breakthrough for adolescents in many ways, but its use can also become dysfunctional and problematic, leading to consequences for personal well-being. The main objective is to analyze profiles related to problematic internet u...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,755 Views
18 Pages

Use of the Internet for Health Purposes—A National Web-Based Cross-Sectional Survey among Adults in Poland

  • Krzysztof Płaciszewski,
  • Waldemar Wierzba,
  • Janusz Ostrowski,
  • Jarosław Pinkas and
  • Mateusz Jankowski

The Internet is one of the most popular information sources. This study aimed to assess the public attitudes towards the use of the Internet for health purposes as well as to identify factors associated with the use of the Internet for health purpose...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,902 Views
17 Pages

Given the increasing use of the Internet in China, the relationship between Internet use and population health has been receiving increased academic attention. However, the current literature has not yet reached a unified conclusion; thus, further re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
2,148 Views
18 Pages

28 September 2023

The problems that exist in China’s agricultural operations are not only on a small scale; more seriously, there are also problems of land fragmentation and the mismatch of human and land resources. Land transfer is expected to be a tool for sol...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,426 Views
14 Pages

Mobile Internet technology has developed so rapidly that the Internet has become indispensable in everyday life. There is a continuous debate about the relationship between internet use and subjective well-being. In contrast to observing whether one...

  • Article
  • Open Access
58 Citations
22,626 Views
14 Pages

The primary aim of this study was to compare different screening tools for problematic internet pornography use (IPU) and identify the most accurate measure. The reliability and validity of three scales, namely, the Problematic Pornography Consumptio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
4,144 Views
16 Pages

26 April 2022

Poverty vulnerability is an important indicator to achieve sustainable development of farmers out of poverty in China. Based on the data of China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) 2018, we research the impact and mechanism of Internet use on the poverty vu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
711 Views
20 Pages

Parietal Alpha Asymmetry as a Correlate of Internet Use Severity in Healthy Adults

  • Dovile Simkute,
  • Povilas Tarailis and
  • Inga Griskova-Bulanova

8 November 2025

Background: Problematic Internet Use (PIU) is associated with emotional and cognitive dysregulation, yet its neural correlates, particularly in non-clinical populations, remain poorly understood. This study investigated association of the resting-sta...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
4,111 Views
14 Pages

Health, as basic human capital, is quite important for rural adults. However, in China, the average level of public health facilities and services is far lower in rural areas than in cities. In recent years, the internet has developed rapidly in Chin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,444 Views
17 Pages

10 May 2023

Developing agricultural socialized services is of great significance for promoting agricultural sustainable development and ensuring food security. The use of the Internet provides new opportunities to promote the development of agricultural socializ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
90 Citations
12,544 Views
11 Pages

The Associations between Family-Related Factors and Excessive Internet Use in Adolescents

  • Anna Faltýnková,
  • Lukas Blinka,
  • Anna Ševčíková and
  • Daniela Husarova

This study examined the relationship between Excessive Internet Use (EIU) in adolescents and their family environment, namely the family type, the family economic status, the effect of parental care, the level of parental control, the amount of paren...

  • Review
  • Open Access
18 Citations
9,357 Views
18 Pages

25 November 2021

The intensive use of the Internet and communication technologies among adolescents has increased addiction and/or their problematic use. The innovative and revolutionary development of this technology can have negative effects on the mental and physi...

  • Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
6,219 Views
14 Pages

Exploring the Association Between Problematic Internet Use, Internet Gaming Disorder in Adolescents with ADHD: A Scoping Review

  • Roberto Ghiaccio,
  • Anna Passaro,
  • Fabrizio Stasolla,
  • Elvira Martini,
  • Angelo Maria De Fortuna and
  • Raffaele De Luca Picione

Background: Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a neurodevelopmental condition characterized by inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity. Adolescents with ADHD have an elevated risk of developing Internet Gaming Disorder (IGD), a co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
5,941 Views
12 Pages

Prevalence and Factors Associated with Problematic Internet Use in a Population of Spanish University Students

  • Enrique Ramón-Arbués,
  • José Manuel Granada-López,
  • Blanca Martínez-Abadía,
  • Emmanuel Echániz-Serrano,
  • Isabel Antón-Solanas and
  • Michael Nash

(1) Background: To examine the prevalence, and associated factors of, problematic Internet use in a sample of Spanish university students. (2) Methods: Cross-sectional descriptive study of a convenience sample of 698 university students. Self-esteem,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,499 Views
11 Pages

Background: The rise in digital engagement has positioned self-rated health (SRH) among Chinese adults as a pressing public health challenge. This study employs cross-sectional data to analyze the mechanisms by which Internet use impacts SRH outcomes...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,455 Views
18 Pages

Lifestyle Habits Related to Internet Use in Adolescents: Relationships between Wellness, Happiness, and Mental Health

  • Sigita Lesinskienė,
  • Rokas Šambaras,
  • Agnė Butvilaitė,
  • Justina Andruškevič,
  • Margarita Kubilevičiūtė,
  • Urtė Stanelytė,
  • Severija Skabeikaitė,
  • Izabelė Jūraitytė,
  • Ieva Ridzvanavičiūtė and
  • Natalja Istomina
  • + 1 author

14 June 2024

Background: Studies in recent years have shown a significant increase in problematic internet use. Prolonged internet usage negatively impacts various aspects of adolescents’ lifestyles. Methods: The survey was conducted in three Lithuanian cit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,158 Views
17 Pages

The rapid spread of the internet in rural China in the 21st century has fundamentally reshaped the operation of the Chinese rural political system in ways that are at least as profound as television half a century ago. This study used the data of 875...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,367 Views
17 Pages

10 January 2023

Alleviating the poverty vulnerability of rural households helps to resist risk shocks and maintain livelihood security. From a risk-response-ability and -strategy perspective, this paper constructs a theoretical analysis framework for the impact of i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,176 Views
21 Pages

19 February 2024

Enhancing land productivity is a crucial strategy for addressing key sustainable development issues, such as poverty reduction and ensuring food security. Farmers’ Internet use behavior offers the potential to improve land productivity. However...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,404 Views
12 Pages

18 January 2024

Older adults engage in online activities for various purposes. An increasing number of studies are establishing connections between the purposes of internet use and their impacts on health outcomes. This study aimed to examine how the purposes of int...

  • Article
  • Open Access
45 Citations
6,890 Views
10 Pages

Problematic use of the Internet is becoming increasingly important and especially for adolescents, high prevalence rates are reported in many countries. Despite the growing international research activities and the reported prevalence estimates, comp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,999 Views
16 Pages

5 August 2023

The use of the Internet by older adults will contribute to the sustainable development of society. Existing studies have extensively investigated the influencing factors that affect older people’s use of the Internet, but ignored the behaviors...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
10,778 Views
19 Pages

The Impact of Internet Use on Citizens’ Trust in Government: The Mediating Role of Sense of Security

  • Zicheng Wang,
  • Huiting Liu,
  • Tianfeng Li,
  • Lijuan Zhou and
  • Mingxing Zhou

15 January 2023

With the rapid development of communication technologies, the Internet use has become the main channel for citizens to obtain information and knowledge. It has been widely established that Internet use can have a significant impact on citizens’...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,408 Views
13 Pages

Impacts of Internet Use on Chinese Patients’ Trust-Related Primary Healthcare Utilization

  • Jiao Lu,
  • Jingyan Bai,
  • Qingqing Guo,
  • Zhongliang Zhou,
  • Xiaowei Yang and
  • Qi Yu

21 October 2022

Background: The internet has greatly improved the availability of medical knowledge and may be an important avenue to improve patients’ trust in physicians and promote primary healthcare seeking by reducing information asymmetry. However, very...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
7,178 Views
18 Pages

Interaction of Socioeconomic Status with Risky Internet Use, Gambling and Substance Use in Adolescents from a Structurally Disadvantaged Region in Central Europe

  • Benjamin Petruzelka,
  • Jaroslav Vacek,
  • Beata Gavurova,
  • Matus Kubak,
  • Roman Gabrhelik,
  • Vladimir Rogalewicz and
  • Miroslav Bartak

Background and aims: The current level of knowledge concerning the effect of socioeconomic status (SES) on internet use, gambling, and substance use in structurally disadvantaged regions is scarce. The objective of this study was an investigation of...

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