Article 1: (Internet addiction in students: Prevalence and risk factors)

Article 1: (Internet addiction in students: Prevalence and risk factors)

• Section 1 – Library research description

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Search terms:  Internet addiction

• Section 2 – Article abstracts and references

Title:   Internet addiction in students: Prevalence and risk factors              

Abstract:

The last decade has witnessed a large increase in research on the newly emerging mental health problem of Internet addiction. Rather than looking at Internet addiction per se, this study focused on particular activities on the Internet that might be potentially addictive and linked them to personality traits that might predispose individuals to Internet addiction. The aims of this study were (i) to assess the prevalence of clinically significant levels of Internet addiction, and to (ii) discern the interplay between personality traits and specific Internet uses in increasing the risk for Internet addiction. This cross-sectional online survey used data from 2257 students of an English university. Results indicated that 3.2% of the students were classified as being addicted to the Internet. The included personality traits and uses of online activities explained 21.5% of the variance in Internet addiction. A combination of online shopping and neuroticism decreased the risk for Internet addiction, whereas a combination of online gaming and openness to experience increased it. In addition to this, frequent usage of online shopping and social online activities, high neuroticism and low agreeableness significantly increased the chances of being addicted to the Internet. Findings and their implications are discussed.

Keywords

·         Internet addiction

·         Personality

·         Online activity

·         Risk

·         Prevalence

·         Students

• Section 3 – Research descriptions

This article looks onto an online survey that collected form 2257 (N=2257) student ages from 18-65 years (participants). Instead of looking at internet addiction, the article focused on some activities done on the internet that might cause addiction such as gaming. The article had both qualitative and quantitative approaches (study approaches), the article used percentages, graphs, and tables to represent the data that they got form the surveys, at the same time the article also gave some qualitative data on the causes and the risks of internet addiction. The results of the survey showed that only 3.2% out of all students were internet addicts based on the data collected.

• Section 4 – Article evaluation

Evaluation: (Most Significant)

In my opinion, I choose the first article titled (Internet addiction in students: Prevalence and risk factors) to be the most significant because of couple of reasons. First of all, the article had approached the subject qualitatively and quantitatively. Unlike the other two articles which focused only in one approach. In my opinion approaching the study by both methods will provide more detailed data and accurate at the same time. Moreover, the data was collected from 2257 students which is very large group. This amount of participants will provide accurate data and diverse data. Unlike the other two articles which focused in a small group. Furthermore, the data was collected from students between the ages of 18 and 65 which also will provide more detailed data. I found out that this article is significant because the article provided charts, tables, percentages and graphs which is very important when collecting data. Also the article’s findings were interesting and important because it proved that only 3.2% out of the 2257 students are internet addicted.

What I think is missing in this article is what are those participants are studying and where, also what country they are in because knowing that might give an idea if the students have easy access to the internet, because in some countries they don’t have easy access to the internet so obviously a majority of its population will not be addicted to the internet. Last but not least, the article did not mention the risks of internet addiction what would be an important piece of information.