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KMID : 0897520050100010003
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Journal of Korean Association of Social Psychiatry
2005 Volume.10 No. 1 p.3 ~ p.10
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Relationship between Internet Addiction and Social Avoidance and Personality Pattern of DSM-IV in High School Students
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Jung Sun-Min
Jung Il-Geun
Cho Jin-Seok
Cho Hyun-Kee
Lee Duk-Gi
Byun Won-Tan
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Abstract
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Objectives： The purpose of this study was to survey the present conditions of adolescents’ internet use and to investigate the relations of internet addiction to social avoidance and personality pattern in DSM-IV.
Methods：Eight hundred and five high-school students(male/female=439/366) completed a standard questionnaire related to internet using. We assessed internet addiction, social avoidance and personality pattern in DSM-IV of adolescent using Young’s Internet Addiction Scale, Social Avoidance and Distress Scale(SAD) and Million Clinical Multiaxial Inventory-III(MCMI-III), respectively.
Results：1) Of these 805 subjects, 29 subjects(3.6%) were classified into addicted group and 418 subjects(51.9%) were classified into over-use group. 2) Comparison among addicted, over-use, non-addicted group showed statistically difference in social avoidance and distress scale(p<0.01). 3) In personality patterns using MCMI questionnaire, result of comparison among addicted, over-use, non-addicted group were that antisocial, compulsive, narcissistic, scales were significant different in male students, and antisocial, compulsive, avoidant scales were significant different in female students(p<.05).
Conclusion：These results suggest that internet addiction may be different depending on their social avoidance and personality patterns in adolescents.
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KEYWORD
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Internet addiction, Social avoidance and distress scale, Personality patterns in DSM-IV
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