Toward a comprehensive theory of problematic Internet use: Evaluating the role of self-esteem, anxiety, flow, and the self-rated importance of Internet activities

By Ho-Kyung Kim, Keith E. Davis. Computers in Human Behavior, 2009

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Subfields: Education, Literature and Literary Theory, Sociology and Political Science

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Problematic Use of the Internet and Self-Regulation: A Review of the Initial Studies (2012, background): “Certain studies found that PIU is positively associated with sensation-seeking [52-54] and with reward sensitivity [55, 56], whereas other studies failed to find such associations [33, 35, 57-59].”
Internet addiction among adolescents: The role of self-esteem (2011, background): “In some other studies, self-esteem has emerged a factor associated with Internet use (Jackson, Eye, Fitzgerald & Zhao, 2010) and problematic Internet use (Kim & Davis, 2009).”
Depression, loneliness and Internet addiction: How important is low self-control? (2014, background): “This rapid increase has inevitably led to issues such as problematic Internet use (Kim & Davis, 2009) and Internet addiction (Block, 2008).”
Theory and measurement of generalized problematic Internet use: A two-step approach (2010, background): “Research published subsequent to the introduction of the cognitive-behavioral model indicates that one important cognitive symptom of GPIU is a preference for online social interaction (Caplan, 2003, 2005, 2007; Kim & Davis, 2009; Kim et al., 2009).”
Reciprocal associations between shyness, self-esteem, loneliness, depression and Internet addiction in Chinese adolescents (2020, background): “…addiction across time in the present study, we maintain that selfesteem is a key predictor of Internet addiction because shy individuals perceived the Internet as a way of compensating for face-to-face communications due to low self-evaluation, which was defined as self-esteem (Kim and Davis 2009).”
Problematic Use of Social Networking Sites: Antecedents and Consequence from a Dual-System Theory Perspective (2016, result): “These results can also explain the mixed findings in prior studies regarding the effect of self-esteem on self-regulation abilities [47].”
Integrating psychological and neurobiological considerations regarding the development and maintenance of specific Internet-use disorders: An Interaction of Person-Affect-Cognition-Execution (I-PACE) model. (2016, neutral): “…high neuroticism, a tendency to procrastinate, and low self-directedness (Ebeling-Witte et al., 2007; Floros et al., 2014; Hardie and Tee, 2007; Kim and Davis, 2009; Koo and Kwon, 2014; Müller et al., 2014; Niemz et al., 2005; Sariyska et al., 2014; Thatcher et al., 2008; Wang et al., 2015a;…”
The Effects of Boredom, Loneliness, and Distress Tolerance on Problem Internet Use Among University Students (2016, background): “PIU has been associated with several negative psychological outcomes such as low selfesteem (Armstrong et al. 2000; Caplan 2002; Kim and Davis 2009; Niemz et al. 2005), anxiety (Dowling and Brown 2010; Kelley and Gruber 2010; Park et al. 2013) and depression (Caplan 2002; Dowling and Brown 2010;…”
Cyber-bullying: An investigation of the psychological profile of university student participants (2014, background): “It has been also shown that socially rejected individuals are more likely to spend extended time on the Internet and use it in dangerous and problematic ways, behaviors which have been previously associated with CB/V experiences (Kim & Davis, 2009).”