Internet Addiction: A Review of Current Assessment Techniques and Potential Assessment Questions

By Keith W. Beard. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 2005

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Subfields: Information Systems and Management, Sociology and Political Science

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Online communication, compulsive Internet use, and psychosocial well-being among adolescents: a longitudinal study. (2008, background): “Several studies have already addressed the potential addictive properties of the Internet (Beard, 2005; Beard & Wolf, 2001; Brenner, 1997; Caplan, 2002; Davis, 2001; Griffiths, 2002; Morahan-Martin & Schumacher, 2000; Young, 1996, 1998), with Internet addiction being defined by core features such as”
Internet Addiction Disorder (2014, unknown): “These questionnaires have been reviewed by Beard (2005), who noted that these instruments have yielded preliminary research on IAD but are based on different theoretical underpinnings and do not agree on the underlying dimensions that make their utilization problematic.”
Relational consequences of compulsive Internet use: a longitudinal study among newlyweds (2011, background): “…of Internet access, such as 24-hour access to information on almost any topic and the ability to link people and places all over the world within seconds, others emphasize its downsides, among which the excessive use and addictive properties of Internet use ﬁgure prominently (e.g., Beard, 2005).”
Online Social Networking and Addiction—A Review of the Psychological Literature (2011, background): “Conceivably, self-reports may be supplemented with structured clinical interviews [123] and further case study evidence as well as supplementary reports from the users’ significant others.”
Internet Addiction: Metasynthesis of 1996–2006 Quantitative Research (2009, unknown): “18 While this definition is used as a guide, it must be noted that it does not totally encompass the underlying structure of the term.”
Internet Addiction among Greek University Students: Demographic Associations with the Phenomenon, Using the Greek Version of Young's Internet Addiction Test (2010, background): “50 Internet have been readily praised, there is a growing amount of literature on the negative side of its excessive and pathological use (Chou and Hsiao, 2000; Caplan, 2003; Beard, 2005; Frangos and Frangos, 2009).”
Lost online: an overview of internet addiction (2007, background): “Beard (2005) eloquently summarised the key criticisms of the diagnostic instruments listed above.”
Internet addiction: Meta-synthesis of qualitative research for the decade 1996-2006 (2008, background): “Beard (2005) preferred a more holistic definition of the term that would suggest that an individual's psychological state, which includes both mental and emotional states, as well as their scholastic, occupational and social interactions , is impaired by the overuse of the medium.”
Internet Addiction or Excessive Internet Use (2010, methodology): “The assessment methods have been reviewed by Beard (17).”
The measurement of Internet addiction: A critical review of existing scales and their psychometric properties (2014, background): “In order to move forward in the field, efforts should be made to curb the development of new scales and to validate existing scales identified as useful in diverse populations so as to move towards the development of a gold standard assessment method (Beard, 2005; Huang, Wang, Qian, Zhong, & Tao, 20”
Loneliness, social contacts and Internet addiction: A cross-lagged panel study (2014, methodology): “Many studies have examined Internet addiction, its social and psychological correlates, and possible treatments (Beard, 2005).”