THE COMPULSION OF USING THE INTERNET AND ATTEMPTS TO MEASURE IT. THE RESEARCH REPORT' (Przymus uzywania Internetu - proba pomiaru. Raport z badan)

• Authors: Franczak Kazimierz , Korzeniecka Klaudia , Szpringer Monika
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

Just like any other human activity, using the Internet is subject to assessment in view of people's development. For many years the attempts have been made to determine the reasonable limits of using the Internet. Recently, psychologists began to point at the phenomenon of the addiction to the world wide web. Also, there is an ongoing work on elaborating diagnostic measures of Internet addiction or compulsion of using it. The majority of researchers refer to the criteria of addiction as specified by the DMS-IV or ICD-10 with regard to psychoactive substances. This article presents the outcome of adaptive researches of the Compulsive Internet Use Scale. The tool has been translated and applied upon two groups, of which the first one consisted of adult people (N=53) and the second included elementary school pupils (N=87). In both researches very high Cronbach's alpha coefficient has been obtained, therefore using the aforesaid tool for further researches is justified. In the group of adults no instances of compulsory Internet use were found, whereby in the group of 12-year olds there have been several cases of highly compulsive Internet activity.

Keywords

EN

ADDICTION TO THE INTERNET; INTERNET ADDICTION

Discipline

• MEDIA_&_COMMUNICATION: MEDIA & COMMUNICATION

• Publisher: Faculty of Theology at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin / Chair of the Contemporary Forms of Faith Transmission
• Journal: Biuletyn Edukacji Medialnej
• Year: 2011
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 5-15
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Franczak Kazimierz

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Korzeniecka Klaudia

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Szpringer Monika

• Kazimierz Franczak, Uniwersytet Kardynala Stefana Wyszynskiego warszawie, Wydzial Nauk Pedagogicznych, ul. Woycickiego 1/3, 01-938 Warszawa, Poland.

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

11PLAAAA103910