Internet Addiction Prevalence and Quality of (Real) Life: A Meta-Analysis of 31 Nations Across Seven World Regions

By Cecilia Cheng, Angel Yee-lam Li. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 2014

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Clinical psychology of Internet addiction: a review of its conceptualization, prevalence, neuronal processes, and implications for treatment (2015, positive): “For instance, Cheng and Li 78 conducted a meta-analysis in order to estimate prevalence rates of IA across several countries by searching for evidence stemming from empirical studies published between 1996 and 2012.”
Ethics of the Attention Economy: The Problem of Social Media Addiction (2020, background): “In their meta-analysis of thirty-one international studies, Cheng and Li (2014) estimated that 6 percent of the world’s population had become addicted to the internet.”
The relationship between addictive use of social media and video games and symptoms of psychiatric disorders: A large-scale cross-sectional study. (2016, background): “…addiction The use of modern online technology such as social media and video games has become an increasingly studied area over the last decade (Cheng & Li, 2014; Kuss & Griffiths, 2012; Kuss, Griffiths, Karila, & Billieux, 2014; Mazzoni & Iannone, 2014; Ryan, Chester, Reece, & Xenos, 2014;…”