Problematic Use of the Internet and Self-Regulation: A Review of the Initial Studies
By Joël Billieux, Martial van der Linden. 2012
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Problematic Internet Use (PIU) is considered as an inability to control one's use of the Internet, which eventually involves negative consequences in daily life. Among the various psychological factors potentially involved in the development of PIU, the role of poor self-regulation capacities (e.g., high impulsivity and sensation seeking, low inhibitory control, poor decision-making abilities) has recently received increased attention. Although the number of studies currently available on this topic remains limited, our aim here is to review their findings. After briefly defining PIU and discussing the main instruments which have been developed to assess it, this article describes the studies that have investigated the relations between PIU and self-regulation. Their heterogeneous findings are discussed and avenues for future research are provided.
Subfields: Communication, Information Systems and Management, Sociology and Political Science
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Citations in the corpus
- Problematic Use of Social Networking Sites: Antecedents and Consequence from a Dual-System Theory Perspective (2016, background): “A problematic behavior is defined as a typically impulsive, often short-lived behavior that is considered inappropriate, prohibited, or even dangerous in a given environment and context, or for a given state and goal of the individual [5, 13].”