Addictive internet use among Korean adolescents: a national survey.

ABSTRACT:

Background

A psychological disorder called 'Internet addiction' has newly emerged along with a dramatic increase of worldwide Internet use. However, few studies have used population-level samples nor taken into account contextual factors on Internet addiction.

Methods and findings

We identified 57,857 middle and high school students (13-18 year olds) from a Korean nationally representative survey, which was surveyed in 2009. To identify associated factors with addictive Internet use, two-level multilevel regression models were fitted with individual-level responses (1st level) nested within schools (2nd level) to estimate associations of individual and school characteristics simultaneously. Gender differences of addictive Internet use were estimated with the regression model

SUBMITTER: Heo J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3914839 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature