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KMID : 0897520170220020084
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Journal of Korean Association of Social Psychiatry
2017 Volume.22 No. 2 p.84 ~ p.90
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The Effect of the Internet Addiction Prevention Program
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Park Minn-Suh
Jon Duk-In
Hong Hyun-Ju
Chung Myung-Hoon
Hong Na-Rei
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Abstract
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Objectives : While Internet is being spread, the problems of internet addiction is also increasing in the world. Because adolescent is fragile to addiction, internet addiction prevention is important. This study tries to check the effect of the established internet addiction prevention program for elementary school students with change of addiction-related symptoms.
Methods : The internet addiction prevention program was run for 4th and 5th grade students of 5 elementary schools in 1 city of Gyeonggi-Do, Korea. 556 participants completed Internet Addiction Scale for Adolescent (KS-II) before and after the
3-session program. We divided the participants into 2 groups, normal user group and risky user group, and conducted independent T test and repetitive ANOVA over 4 domains, disturbance in daily life, cyber world oriented, withdrawal symptom, and tolerance.
Results : Over all domains, each score was statistically lowered in both normal user group and risky user group after the program. Due to interaction effect, score of disturbance in daily life, withdrawal symptom, and total score was decreased more in risky user group than in normal user group.
Conclusion : This study showed that the internet addiction prevention program which would change the level of knowledge about internet addiction in normal user group and risky user group could affect severity and aspects of addiction symptom with change of score of self-report scale. Also, especially in disturbance in daily life, withdrawal symptom, and total score, decrease of the score decreased more than other domain.
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KEYWORD
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Internet, Preventive psychiatry, Adolescence, Adolescent behavior, Behavior, Addictive, Psychiatric status rating scales
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