Review article
https://doi.org/10.31299/hrri.54.1.9
Youth and internet addiction: review of contemporary knowledge
Dora Dodig Hundrić
orcid.org/0000-0002-4767-637X
; Odsjek za poremećaje u ponašanju, Edukacijsko-rehabilitacijsko fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Zagreb
Neven Ricijaš
orcid.org/0000-0001-8107-8448
; Odsjek za poremećaje u ponašanju, Edukacijsko-rehabilitacijsko fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Zagreb
Monika Vlček
orcid.org/0000-0002-8027-4268
Abstract
The Internet is indispensable in the daily life of modern man. However, recent studies support the idea that part of the population is developing problems associated with excessive use of the Internet. As with other behavioural problems, children and young people are at particular risk. Internet addiction, though still not a separate diagnostic category, conceptually belongs to behavioural addictions. Knowledge of this complex phenomenon is extremely important to professionals who work with children and youth. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to provide a systematic and concise review of Croatian and international professional and scientific literature. In this paper, the authors focus on terminological issues and definitions, prevalence assessment as well as the phenomenology and aetiology of Internet addiction. Contemporary knowledge, predominantly from outside Croatia, is interpreted in the context of scientific research and with the purpose of creating prevention and treatment interventions for youth from the general population and for youth who have already developed problems associated with excessive use of the Internet.
Keywords
Internet addiction; behavioural addiction; children and young people
Hrčak ID:
203885
URI
Publication date:
20.7.2018.
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