TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2012//
TI  - Internet addiction in the island of Hippocrates: the associations between internet abuse and adolescent off-line behaviours
JO  - Child and adolescent mental health
A1  - Fisoun, Virginia
A1  - Floros, Georgios
A1  - Geroukalis, Dimitrios
A1  - Ioannidi, Nikoleta
A1  - Farkonas, Nikiforos
A1  - Sergentani, Elena
A1  - Angelopoulos, Nikiforos
A1  - Siomos, Konstantinos
SP  - 37
EP  - 44
VL  - 17
IS  - 1
N2  - BACKGROUND: To investigate the phenomenon of internet addiction and concurrent social (off-line) behaviours of an adolescent population a cross-sectional survey of the entire adolescent student population (N = 1270, aged 14-18) of the island of Kos in Greece was conducted.     METHOD: Completion by the survey participants of a demographic questionnaire, the 8-question YDQ (Diagnostic Questionnaire for Internet Addiction) and the 20-question IAT (Internet Addiction Test), followed by comparative analysis between and within usage groups.     RESULTS: Results demonstrate that 7.2% of male and 5.1% of female internet users present addictive behaviours while using the internet.     CONCLUSIONS: Anti-social, aggressive behaviours were significantly correlated with an increase to the pattern of abusive internet use in both sexes. Boys and girls had distinct profiles of off-line and online preferences. Boys tended to favour interest-driven online activities as their levels of addictive behaviour increased while girls favoured communication-driven online activities.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1475-357X
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-3588.2011.00605.x
ID  - ref1
ER  -