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Internet Addiction: The Case of Slovenia


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Abstract

The article deals with the problems of Internet addiction and the extent of
computer and Internet use among young people. The topic is new and has not
been much investigated so far. The author presents the opinions of different
theorists regarding the existence of this kind of addiction, its symptoms and its
definition. Several on-line surveys of Internet addiction and some case studies
have been carried out, which may provide more information on Internet addiction.
The second part of the article presents the results of a survey carried out
in Ljubljana among secondary school students in their third year (N = 1194).
The questionnaire included questions about their use of computers and the
Internet, and also an Internet addiction test, adopted from K. S. Young’s test.
The results revealed very few symptoms of addiction among the interviewed
population. However, the analysis of extreme values shows that symptoms
correlate not only with the gender and type of school, but also with the type of
activity. The conclusion is that Internet addiction is not frequent among Slovene
secondary school students. Nevertheless, there is a small number of individuals
exhibiting many of its symptoms.

Keywords

Internet; Internet addiction; young people and the Internet; Slovenia

Hrčak ID:

23350

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/23350

Publication date:

26.11.2002.

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