A tough love remedy for
internet addiction designed for impressionable young minds which prefer virtual reality to relating in the flesh.
Not exact matches
This
addiction also got me involved with website
design as I was interested in the
Internet and how it worked.
This self - assessment test, created in 1998 by psychiatrist Kimberly Young of Saint Bonaventure University in New York State, is an unofficial standard among
Internet addiction researchers, and it consists of eight yes - or - no questions
designed to separate online addicts from those who can manage their
Internet use.
Pathological use of the
Internet was assessed by the
Internet Addiction Test, also known as the Young's
Internet Addiction Scale,
designed by Young.20 The
Internet Addiction Test is a 20 - item self - reported scale, and the
design was based on the concepts and behaviors exhibited by pathological gamblers as definite by the DSM - IV diagnostic criteria.