‘Internet Addiction’: A Critical Review

By Laura Widyanto, Mark D. Griffiths. International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, 2006

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Subfields: Education, Sociology and Political Science

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Relational consequences of compulsive Internet use: a longitudinal study among newlyweds (2011, background): “…(e.g., Amichai-Hamburger & Ben-Artzi, 2003; Beard & Wolf, 2001; Caplan, 2002; Morahan-Martin & Schumacher, 2000; Scherer, 1997; Young, 1998; Young & Rogers, 1998; for recent reviews and meta-analyses see Byun et al., 2009; Chou et al., 2005; Tokunaga and Rains, 2010; Widyanto & Grifﬁths, 2006).”
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): “…term in international publications (e.g., Brand et al., 014a,b; Chou et al., 2005; Dong et al., 2013b; Douglas et al., 2008; riffiths, 1999; Hansen, 2002; Kuss and Griffiths, 2011a; Kuss et al., 014; Weinstein and Lejoyeux, 2010; Widyanto and Griffiths, 2006; oung, 1998, 2004; Young et al., 2011).”
Internet addiction: Meta-synthesis of qualitative research for the decade 1996-2006 (2008, background): “There are as many as six different terms associated with the concept of Internet addiction, including ''Internet Addiction Disorder (IAD), " ''Pathological Internet Use, " ''Problematic Internet Use, " ''Excessive Internet Use, " and ''Compulsive Internet Use " (Widyanto & Griffiths, 2006).”
Problematic Use of the Internet and Self-Regulation: A Review of the Initial Studies (2012, background): “, anxiety, depression, social phobia, drug use) [1, 2].”
The measurement of Internet addiction: A critical review of existing scales and their psychometric properties (2014, neutral): “…Chen, & Chen, 2012; Lopez-Fernandez et al., 2013; Moreno, Jelenchik, Cox, Young, & Christakis, 2011; Pezoa-Jares et al., 2012; Shaw & Black, 2008; Widyanto & Griffiths, 2006; Özcan & Gokcearslan, 2013) and meta-analyses (Byun et al., 2009; Weinstein & Lejoyeux, 2010) have included between 3 and…”
A Meta-analysis of the Reliabilty of Young's Internet Addiction Test (2012, background): “Since then, there have been many studies examining the multiple facets of this disorder [2], [3].”
Excessive Internet Use among European Children (2012, background): “Widyanto and Griffiths (2006) maintain that it is important to make a distinction between blaming technology for causing the problem and understanding technology as revealing problems with origins elsewhere.”
A conceptual and methodological critique of internet addiction research: Towards a model of compensatory internet use (2014, neutral): “It would also explain why the conceptualization of internet addiction as a mental disorder is still dominating research despite the apparent shortcomings in terms of furthering the development of internet addiction theory (e.g., Widyanto & Grifﬁths, 2006).”
Problematic smartphone use: A conceptual overview and systematic review of relations with anxiety and depression psychopathology. (2017, background): “In addition to “problematic smartphone use,” other terms that have been used to describe this construct regarding a smartphone include “addiction,” “excessive use,” “compulsive use,” and “compensatory use” (Kardefelt-Winther, 2014; Widyanto and Griffiths, 2006).”
Loneliness, social contacts and Internet addiction: A cross-lagged panel study (2014, background): “(Widyanto & Griffiths, 2006).”
Problematic Internet and cell phone use in Spanish teenagers and young students (2012, background): “It is logical that there is often strong correlation between time spent on a computer and problematic use (Muñoz-Rivas, Fernández & Gámez-Guadix, 2010; Viñas el al., 2002; Widyanto & Griffiths, 2006).”