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Lozano-Blasco, Raquel; Cortés-Pascual, Alejandra – Comunicar: Media Education Research Journal, 2020
Widespread use of the Internet in 21st century society is not risk-free. This paper studies the comorbidity of some problematic uses of Internet with depression in order to assess their correlation. With that aim, a meta-analysis of 19 samples obtained from 13 different studies (n=33,458) was carried out. The subjects of these studies are…
Descriptors: Internet, Depression (Psychology), Adolescents, Cultural Differences
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Yang, Shang-Yu; Lin, Chung-Ying; Huang, Yueh-Chu; Chang, Jer-Hao – Journal of American College Health, 2018
Objective: The present study examined variations in the degree of smartphone use behavior among male and female adolescents as well as the association between various degrees of smartphone use behavior and the vitality and mental health of each gender. Participants: A total of 218 adolescents were recruited from a junior college in September 2014.…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Gender Differences, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices
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Lan, Chu M.; Lee, Yu H. – School Psychology International, 2013
Although there has been considerable research which has explored factors related to internet addiction, few studies have investigated elementary school students' involvement in this behaviour pattern. Participants in the present study were 1045 children in grades 3 to 6 from elementary schools in Taiwan. Students completed surveys on their use of…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Internet, Addictive Behavior, Foreign Countries