Aims and scope The usage of mobile phones and the internet by young people has
increased rapidly in the past decade, approaching saturation by middle childhood in …

How does the time children spend using digital technology impact their mental well-being,
social relationships and physical acti Page 1 How does the time children spend using digital …

Adolescents' media use represents a normative need for information, communication,
recreation and functionality, yet problematic Internet use has increased. Given the arguably …

Despite concerns about the effects of internet use, little is known about how problematic
internet use impacts on British children and adolescents. By adapting the Problematic …

Internet addiction takes on different forms and is an important issue for diagnostic and
preventive reasons. This paper sets out to diagnose the scale of problematic use of Internet …

This article discusses EU Kids Online. Funded by the European Commission's Safer Internet
Programme, EU Kids Online (2006–2009) is a thematic network that aimed to identify …

The purpose of this study was to empirically test the proposed theory of compensatory
internet use, suggesting that people who play online games excessively are motivated to do …

Both childhood and the media environment are changing, with children growing up in a
convergent media ecology (Livingstone, 2009; Ito et al., 2010). The children studied in this …

This study problematizes the common methodology in studies on excessive internet use
where psychological characteristics are sought as unique predictors of negative outcomes. It …

In this report we discuss how the original EU Kids Online analytical model was constructed.
We review key findings produced from qualitative and quantitative research by EU Kids …