Tools
Tools
Koronczai, B., Kökönyei, G., Tao, T., Griffiths, M.D. 
ORCID: 0000-0001-8880-6524 and Demetrovics, Z.,
2019.
The relationship between personality traits, psychopathological symptoms, and problematic internet use: a complex mediation model.
Journal of Medical Internet Research, 21 (4): e11837.
ISSN 1438-8871
|
Text
13860_13692_Griffiths.pdf - Published version Download (670kB) | Preview |
Abstract
Background: There are many empirical studies that demonstrate the associations between problematic internet use, psychopathological symptoms, and personality traits. However, complex models are scarce.
Objective: The aim of this study was to build and test a mediation model based on problematic internet use, psychopathological symptoms, and personality traits.
Methods: Data were collected from a medical addiction center (43 internet addicts) and internet cafés (222 customers) in Beijing (Mean age = 22.45 years, SD = 4.96; 90.2% males). Path analysis was applied to test the mediation models using structural equation modelling.
Results: Based on the preliminary analyses (correlations and linear regression), two different models were built. In the first model, low conscientiousness and depression had a direct significant influence on problematic internet use. The indirect effect of conscientiousness – via depression – was non-significant. Emotional stability only affected problematic internet use indirectly, via depressive symptoms. In the second model, low conscientiousness also had a direct influence on problematic internet use, while the indirect path via the Global Severity Index was again non-significant. Emotional stability impacted problematic internet use indirectly via the Global Severity Index, while it had no direct effect on it, as in the first model.
Conclusion: Personality traits (i.e., conscientiousness as a protective factor and neuroticism as a risk factor) play a significant role in problematic internet use, both directly and indirectly (via distress level).
| Item Type: | Journal article | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Publication Title: | Journal of Medical Internet Research | ||||
| Creators: | Koronczai, B., Kökönyei, G., Tao, T., Griffiths, M.D. and Demetrovics, Z. | ||||
| Publisher: | Journal of Medical Internet Research | ||||
| Date: | 26 April 2019 | ||||
| Volume: | 21 | ||||
| Number: | 4 | ||||
| ISSN: | 1438-8871 | ||||
| Identifiers: |
|
||||
| Rights: | Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work, first published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research, is properly cited. | ||||
| Divisions: | Schools > School of Social Sciences | ||||
| Record created by: | Jonathan Gallacher | ||||
| Date Added: | 02 Apr 2019 08:11 | ||||
| Last Modified: | 01 May 2019 12:28 | ||||
| URI: | https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/36165 |
Actions (login required)
 |
Edit View |
Views
Views per month over past year
Downloads
Downloads per month over past year
