Internet Addiction Disorder: An Italian Study

By Giovanni Ferraro, B. Caci, Antonella D'Amico, M. Blasi. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 2007

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Subfields: Communication, Education, Sociology and Political Science

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Attachment disorganization and dissociation in virtual worlds: A study on problematic Internet use among players of online role playing games. (2012, methodology): “…and misuse of the internet, while scores of 80 or over indicated a severe Internet addiction. these cut-off scores were used consistently with previous research on the psychometric properties of the Italian translation of the IAT (Cantelmi et al. 2000, Milani et al. 2009, Ferraro et al. 2007).”
Validation and psychometric properties of a short version of Young's Internet Addiction Test (2013, neutral): “For example, four studies (Chang & Law, 2008; Ferraro et al., 2007; Widyanto et al., 2011; Widyanto & McMurran, 2004) used the Kaiser”
Problematic Use of the Internet and Self-Regulation: A Review of the Initial Studies (2012, methodology): “The original IAT has been shown to have adequate psychometric properties [18] and has since been translated and validated in several other languages [19-21].”
Psychological Well-Being and Internet Addiction among University Students. (2013, methodology): “Internet addiction has also shown to be connected with lower levels of self-esteem (Caplan, 2003) and life satisfaction (Ferraro et al., 2007), and poor mental health (Nalwa, and Anand, 2003; Young, and Rogers, 1998).”
Quality of Interpersonal Relationships and Problematic Internet Use in Adolescence (2009, neutral): “) Current literature lacks research data about PIU in Italy (one notable exception is the study of Ferraro et al.(19)), especially in adolescents.”
Understanding Online Gaming Addiction and Treatment Issues for Adolescents (2009, background): “More recently, studies have documented Internet addiction in a growing number of countries such as Italy ( Ferraro, Caci, D’Amico, & Di Blasi, 2007 ), Pakistan ( Suhail & Bargees, 2006 ), and Czech Republic ( Simkova & Cincera, 2004 ).”
French Validation of the Internet Addiction Test (2008, methodology): “Positive correlations were reported between the amount of time spent on line and IAT score.(3,4) The IAT received a psychometric evaluation for its En-glish(3) and Italian(4) versions.”
Integrating Technology Addiction and Use: An Empirical Investigation of Online Auction Users (2011, background): “Festinger (1957) Addicted individuals know that their actions (online auction overuse) are wrong, and they may be ashamed of their behaviors (Ferraro et al. 2007).”