Most people use the Internet as a functional tool to perform their personal goals in everyday-
life such as making airline or hotel reservations. However, some individuals suffer from a …

In recent years, the notion of digital addiction has become popular. Calls for solutions to
combat it, especially in adolescents, are on the rise. Whilst there remains debate on the …

The constant development of online social media features and related services has
constantly attracted and increased the number of social media users. But, at the same time …

Internet addiction (IA) has emerged as a universal issue, but its international estimates vary
vastly. This multinational meta-analysis fills this gap by providing estimates of its global …

Given the prevalence of Internet use among youth, there is concern that a subset of Internet-
using youth may exhibit problematic or addictive patterns of Internet use. The present study …

This study aimed to explore both the direct and indirect relationships between depression,
loneliness, low self-control, and Internet addiction in a sample of Turkish youth, based on a …

Pathological video-gaming, or its proposed DSM-V classification of “Internet Use Disorder”,
is of increasing interest to scholars and practitioners in allied health disciplines. This …

Technology addiction is a relatively new mental condition that has not yet been well
integrated into mainstream MIS models. This study bridges this gap and incorporates …

This study investigated the relationship among loneliness, self‐esteem, life satisfaction, and
Internet addiction. Participants were 384 university students (114 males, 270 females) from …

Internet addiction (IA) has become a serious mental health condition in many countries. To
better understand the clinical implications of IA, this study tested statistically a new …