The present research endeavor, as the first empirical study, qualifies as a pilot study in azerbaijan to help accurately determine internet addicts. The revised chen internet addiction scale ciasr was developed to assess internet addiction in chinese populations, but its psychometric properties in adolescents have not been examined. All questionnaires were in itially constructed in english and then translated into chinese. Assessment of in vivo microstructure alterations in gray. Psychometric properties of the revised chen internet addiction. A metaanalysis of the reliabilty of youngs internet addiction test constantinos c. It assesses the symptom dimensions of tolerance, withdrawal, and compulsive use and the problem dimensions of interpersonal and healthrelated problems and time management. Psychometric properties of the internet addiction test in chinese. Therefore, this study validates an indonesian translation of the chen internet addiction scale cias.
Family factors of internet addiction and substance use experience in taiwanese adolescents juyu yen, m. Objectives to evaluate the predictive values of psychiatric symptoms for the occurrence of internet addiction and to. Chen, internet addiction disorder among clients of a virtual. Research article open access the association between online. The chen internet addiction scale cias has been widely used in taiwan 12. The clinical utility of the chen internet addiction scalegaming. May 30, 2014 further, the bilateral middle temporal gyrus, bilateral inferior temporal gyrus, and right superior parietal lobule were significantly hypoactive during nogo trials. Respondents grade point average was also collected and compared across the different usage profiles. The chen internet addiction scale cias is one of the most popular selfreporting questionnaires on internet addiction, particular in asia. In this study we utilized internet addiction as an indicator of psychological maladjustment and selfcompassion as an indicator of.
This study investigated the association between the internet addiction test iat and the mobile phone dependence. The concurrent validity of the internet addiction test iat plos. Epidemiology of internet behaviors and addiction among adolescents in six asian countries. Research article open access the association between. The rapid and unfettered increase in the number of people accessing a relatively unrestricted internet substantially increases the possibility.
Respiratory sinus arrhythmia reactivity of internet. Psychometric properties of the revised chen internet. Psychiatric symptoms were determined through selfreported questionnaires. The guidance effects of students with internet addiction. Currently there are at least 5 scales being used most frequently in studies for diagnosing internet addiction or problematic internet use. While this screening test may reveal some of the more pathological aspects of internet and smartphone use, it. First, a number of different addiction scales were used across various studies to measure addiction levels, including.
Internet addiction assessment instruments using criteria, checklists, or scales with information about items, scale, reported reliability, number of respondents, and methods reported researchers instrument items scale reliability. Bis11 bis11 is a questionnaire on which participants rate. Frangos is with the division of medicine, university col. Chen internet addiction scale cias 29, the selfrating anxiety scale sas 30, the selfrating depression scale sds 31, and the barratt impulsiveness scale11 bis11 32. While this screening test may reveal some of the more pathological aspects of internet and smartphone use, it should not be used as a definitive diagnostic test. Recent studies suggest that internet gaming addiction iga is an impulse disorder, or is at least related to impulse control disorders. In the crosssectional investigation, we recruited 3662 students 2328 boys and 34 girls from high schools in southern taiwan. Adaptation of internet addiction scale in azerbaijani. Oct 18, 2010 internet addiction, while not yet officially codified within a psychopathological framework, is growing both in prevalence and within the public consciousness as a potentially problematic condition with many parallels to existing recognized disorders. Pdf the revised chen internet addiction scale ciasr was developed to assess internet addiction in chinese populations, but its psychometric.
However, those two cohort studies excluded the students already cias. The aim of this study was to establish the optimal cutoff points of the chen internet addiction scale cias, to screen for and diagnose internet addiction among adolescents in the community by using the well established diagnostic criteria of internet addiction. The ias was administered to 233 undergraduates along with 4 measures. The study included 771 students enrolled in three high schools. It assesses the symptom dimensions of tolerance, withdrawal, and compulsive use and the problem dimensions of interpersonal and. Internet addiction and substance experience were classified according to the score of chen. Compulsive internet use scale cius the following questions should be answered about your use of the internet for private purposes.
One of the important tool used to assess internet addiction is chen internet addiction scale ciac. Psychometric properties of the internet addiction test in chinese adolescents. Research open access trait impulsivity and impaired. Internet addiction, while not yet officially codified within a psychopathological framework, is growing both in prevalence and within the public consciousness as a potentially problematic condition with many parallels to existing recognized disorders.
This and other relationships between digital media use and mental health have been under considerable. A longitudinal study for the empirical validation of an. Our investigation was conducted using the tpq, the chen internet addiction scale, and questionnaires for experience in substance use. Mak kk1, lai cm, ko ch, chou c, kim di, watanabe h, ho rc. Internet addiction should be replaced by terms that refer to the specific behaviors eg, gaming, gambling, or sexual activity, regardless of whether these are performed online or offline. Pdf development of chinese internet addiction scale and. The minimum and maximum scores of the cias are 26 and 104, respectively. Pdf psychometric properties of the revised chen internet.
Based on the results of validity and reliability tests show that chen internet addiction scale cias meets the. Data were collected from students of two universities in qatar, one private and another public. Frontiers challenges in internet addiction disorder. Proposed diagnostic criteria and the screening and. Hia group n 19 and a lia group n 15 using the chen internet addiction scale cias with a cutoff score of 63 26. The internet addiction scale ias is a selfreport instrument based on the 7 diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders 4th ed american psychiatric association, 1994 substance dependence criteria and 2 additional criteria recommended by griffiths 1998. Selected studies were extracted from major online databases.
Chens internet addiction scale cias it is a 26item selfadministered rating scale for internet addiction, including 5 dimensions. Psychometric properties of the revised chen internet addiction scale ciasr in chinese adolescents. Objectives to evaluate the predictive values of psychiatric symptoms for the occurrence of internet addiction and to determine the sex differences in the predictive value of psychiatric symptoms for the occurrence of internet addiction in adolescents. Internet addiction is a controversial theorized mental disorder, the existence andor importance of which is still being debated among the psychological community. The results demonstrated that adult adhd was associated with internet addiction. A total of 722 online gamers with a mean age of 21. The aims of this study were to develop diagnostic criteria of internet addiction for college students dciac with diagnostic interviews and to establish the optimal cutoff points of the chen internet addiction scale cias for the purposes of screening for and making the diagnosis of internet addiction. The chen internet addiction scale cias, the selfrating anxiety scale sas, the selfrating depression scale sds, and the barratt impulsiveness scale11 bis11 were administered to assess the participants clinical features. This study evaluates the association between internal addiction ia and psychiatric comorbidity in the literature. Pdf psychometric properties of the internet addiction test in. The chen internet addiction scale 17 is a selfreport instrument composed of 26 items rated on a 4point likert scale adapted in table 4. They completed a series of selfreported measures, including chen internet.
In addition, the revised chen internet addiction scale ciasr was. Seventeen adolescents with iga and seventeen healthy controls were. Internet addiction is conceptually too heterogeneous because it pertains to a variety of very different behaviors. The clinical utility of the chen internet addiction scale.
Male and female students n 912 in the 7th12th grades were recruited from 2 junior high schools and 2 academic senior high schools located in seoul, south korea. This paper reports the results from two waves of studies on the development of chinese internet addiction scale cias and its revision ciasr. Tridimensional personality of adolescents with internet. An empirical study on cutoff points for the chen internet addiction scale. Internet addiction disorder iad also known as problematic internet use or pathological internet use is generally defined as problematic, compulsive use of the internet, that results in significant impairment in an individuals function in various life domains over a prolonged period of time. The sensitivity, specificity, and diagnostic accuracy of the candidate diagnostic criteria were analyzed with. The association between internet addiction and psychiatric. A total of 2,793 students 937 male and 1,843 female were recruited from eight colleges in taiwan, and they all completed the chen internet addiction scale, adult adhd selfreport scale, and demographic data. This focus has led to the development of several screening tools measuring different aspects of internet use, and more particularly internet addiction. Proposed diagnostic criteria and the screening and diagnosing. Metaanalyses were conducted on crosssectional, casecontrol and cohort studies which examined the relationship between ia and psychiatric comorbidity. Predictive values of psychiatric symptoms for internet.
The association between adult adhd symptoms and internet. Internet addiction is a recently recognized disorder which has received increasing attention worldwide over the past two decades. Young university of pittsburgh at bradford published in cyberpsychology and behavior, vol. Jun 20, 2014 this study evaluates the association between internal addiction ia and psychiatric comorbidity in the literature. In the present study, we hypothesized that different facets of trait impulsivity may be specifically linked to the brain regions with impaired impulse inhibition function in iga adolescents. They were assessed with a sociodemographic data form prepared by the researchers. Family factors of internet addiction and substance use.
A total of 468 adolescents completed the chen internet addiction scale cias and were systematically assessed for internetusing behaviors by seven psychiatrists using the diagnostic interview schedule. A total of 3662 students 2328 boys and 34 girls were recruited from seven junior high schools, six senior high schools, and four vocational high schools in southern taiwan. The revised chen internet addiction scale ciasr the ciasr is a 26item selfreport questionnaire with a fourpoint likert scale ranging from 1 does not match my experience at all to 4 definitely matches my experience. Proposed diagnostic criteria of internet addiction for. The effects of using social network sites on academic. Internet addiction or excessive internet use 279 rates of internet addiction have been examined elsewhere 12, 36. The association between internet addiction and psychiatric co.
The questionnaire of experiences related to internet has been validated in spain 14, the compulsive internet use scale cius in holland 15, and. The internet addiction scale ias was developed by griffiths 1998 and was validated by nichols and nicki 2004 and canan, ataoglu, nichols, yildirim, and ozturk 2010. The emergence of a new clinical disorder kimberly s. Our study aims at assessing the association between internet addiction ia and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder adhd and tobacco and alcohol useexperimentation in high school students living in the province of zonguldak. Association of internet addiction in high school students. The present research endeavor, as the first empirical study, qualifies as a pilot study in azerbaijan to.
Main outcome measure internet addiction as assessed using the chen internet addiction scale. Internet addiction, screen instrument, cutoff point, chen internet addiction scale. Researchers also noted differences in the predictive value of these psychiatric symptoms between males and females. Addiction scalerevised ciasr, fiveitem brief symptom rating. Proposed diagnostic criteria of internet addiction for adole. Internet addiction and substance experience were classified according to the score of chen internet addiction scale questionnaires for experience of substance use. The total scores of the cias ranged from 26 to 104. Other questionnaires include the chen internet addiction scale cias yen et al. Development and validation of a game addiction scale for adolescents jeroen s. A total of 468 adolescents completed the chen internet addiction scale cias and were systematically assessed for internet using behaviors by seven psychiatrists using the diagnostic interview schedule. Thus, the aim of the present study is to examine the relationships between selfcompassion and internet addiction. This study aimed to evaluate the factor structure and psychometric properties of ciasr in hong kong chinese adolescents. The diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders, fifth edition dsm5 includes the diagnostic criteria for internet gaming disorder igd. Chen internet addiction scale 6 manuscript received march 9, 2012.
Griffiths addiction components 2005, including salience. Chen internet addiction scale cias 29, the selfrating anxiety scale sas 30, the selfrating depression scale sds 31, and the barratt impulsiveness scale 11 bis11 32. This study evaluated 1 the screening, diagnostic, and prevalenceestimated cutoff points of the chen internet addiction scalegaming version ciasg for igd in the dsm5. The only two instruments that properly investigate internet addiction are the iat young, 1998 and the chen internet addiction scale chen et al. Apr 10, 2009 a total of 2,793 students 937 male and 1,843 female were recruited from eight colleges in taiwan, and they all completed the chen internet addiction scale, adult adhd selfreport scale, and demographic data. Trait impulsivity and impaired prefrontal impulse inhibition. Pdf development of chinese internet addiction scale and its. Data were collected from november to december 2004 using the internetrelated addiction scale.
Depression, anxiety, and interpersonal sensitivity were found to be correlated with internet addiction. Internet addiction should be replaced by terms that refer to the specific behaviors eg, gaming, gambling, or sexual activity, regardless of. Based on the relationships of internet addiction e. It assesses five domains of internetrelated problems. Predictive values of psychiatric symptoms for internet addiction in adolescents. Internet addiction was assessed by the chen internet addiction scale cias at baseline and at six, 12 and 24 months with scores ranging from 26 to 104. Translation and validation study of the chen internet. Available formats pdf please select a format to send. Activation of the left superior medial frontal gyrus was positively associated with bis11 and chen internet addiction scale cias total score across iga participants. The former has been built on youngs model focusing on the dependency as a central factor and the aim of the questionnaire is to provide a score of pathology. A metaanalysis of the reliabilty of youngs internet. Apr 09, 2018 the study follows a quantitative surveybased method that was adapted from chens internet addiction scale to fit the context of social networks. Yen, juyu chengfang, yen chen, chengsheng chang, yihsin yeh, yichun and ko, chihhung 2012.
This survey of 454 adolescents used screening 5758. It assesses five domains of internet related problems. After selection of the sample, youngs internet addiction scale, symptom checklist90revised, and rosenberg selfesteem scale were used to assess the internet usage, psychopathology, and selfesteem of the college students. The cias is a fourpoint, 26item selfreported scale, it measures internet addiction with good reliability and validity for college students. Comorbidity crosssectional studies on samples of patients report high comorbidity of internet addiction with psychiatric disorders, such as affective disorders, anxiety disorders including gener. The aim of this study was to establish the optimal cutoff points of the chen internet addiction scale cias, to screen for and diagnose internet addiction among adolescents in the community by using the wellestablished diagnostic criteria of internet addiction. Internet addiction and psychiatric symptoms among korean. The study follows a quantitative surveybased method that was adapted from chens internet addiction scale to fit the context of social networks. Methods demographic items, internet use habits, iat, and the revised chen internet addiction scale ciasr were administered. Development and validation of a game addiction scale for. Compulsive use, withdrawal, tolerance, problems of interpersonal relationships, and health and time management.
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