Unregulated Internet Usage: Addiction, Habit, or Deficient Self-Regulation?

By Robert LaRose, Carolyn A. Lin, Matthew S. Eastin. 2003

872 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Communication, Education, Sociology and Political Science

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In Communication

1. Scott E. Caplan
2. Robert LaRose
3. A. V. van Deursen
4. Patti M. Valkenburg
5. Jochen Peter
6. Mark D. Griffiths
7. Matthew S. Eastin
8. Andrew C. High

In Education

1. Mark D. Griffiths
2. Scott E. Caplan
3. Patti M. Valkenburg
4. Jochen Peter
5. Robert LaRose
6. Joël Billieux
7. Jeroen S. Lemmens
8. Ofir Turel

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Mark D. Griffiths
2. Scott E. Caplan
3. Joël Billieux
4. Patti M. Valkenburg
5. Daria J. Kuss
6. Jochen Peter
7. Dmitri Williams
8. Robert LaRose

Citations in the corpus

• A Social Cognitive Theory of Internet Uses and Gratifications: Toward a New Model of Media Attendance (2004, background): “LaRose et al. (2003) examined a single type of outcome expectation, self-reactive outcomes, which uses and gratifications researchers would perhaps recognize as “pass time” gratifications.”
• Problematic Use of the Internet and Self-Regulation: A Review of the Initial Studies (2012, background): “Thus, one should be aware that such types of categorical diagnostic criteria hinder consideration of the possibility that there is a continuum ranging from non-problematic high engagement in the Internet to PIU [16, 17].”
• Getting Hooked on News: Uses and Gratifications and the Formation of News Habits Among College Students in an Internet Environment (2006, methodology): “Habit strength questions suggested by previous research (LaRose et al., 2003) were combined with the uses and gratifications measures before subjecting the entire set of items to a principal components factor analysis using varimax rotation that explained 68% of the available variance.”
• Internet Addiction and Perceived Self-Efficacy Among University Students (2019, background): “In this model, “symptoms” of addiction are defined as indicators of deficient self-regulation that are found at differing levels among the general population (Eastin et al. 2003).”
• Depression, loneliness and Internet addiction: How important is low self-control? (2014, background): “For instance, Larose et al. (2003) found that depression was significantly related to deficient Internet self-regulation.”
• Relations Among Loneliness, Social Anxiety, and Problematic Internet Use (2007, positive): “41 In their study, La Rose et al. found that depression predicted deficient Internet self-regulation, which in turn, predicted Internet usage.”
• Beyond Excessive Use: The Interaction between Cognitive and Behavioral Symptoms of Problematic Internet Use (2006, background): “Along a similar line, LaRose, Lin, & Eastin ( 2003 ) argue that PIU represents a form of deficient self-regulation (also see LaRose, Mastro, & Eastin, 2001 ).”