Yen-Ju Lin1, Ray C Hsiao2, Tai-Ling Liu3, Cheng-Fang Yen4. 1. Department of Psychiatry, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, and School of Medicine and Graduate Institute of Medicine, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan; Department of Psychiatry, Tsyr-Huey Mental Hospital, Kaohsiung Jen-Ai's Home, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. 2. Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, USA; Department of Psychiatry, Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center, Seattle, WA, USA. 3. Department of Psychiatry, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, and School of Medicine and Graduate Institute of Medicine, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Electronic address: dai32155@gmail.com. 4. Department of Psychiatry, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, and School of Medicine and Graduate Institute of Medicine, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Electronic address: chfaye@cc.kmu.edu.tw.
Abstract
BACKGROUND/ PURPOSE: This prospective study evaluated the predictive ability of psychiatric symptoms at initial consultation for the occurrence and remission of Internet addiction during a 1-year follow-up period among college students. Furthermore, it evaluated the predictive ability of changes in psychiatric symptoms for Internet addiction at the initial consultation during the 1-year follow-up period among college students. METHODS: Five hundred college students (262 women and 238 men) were recruited. The baseline and follow-up consultations measured the levels of Internet addiction and psychiatric symptoms using the Chen Internet Addiction Scale and Symptom Checklist-90 Revised, respectively. RESULTS: The results indicated that severe interpersonal sensitivity and paranoia symptoms might predict the incidence of Internet addiction at 1-year follow-up. The college students with internet addiction did not have significant improvement in the severities of psychopathology, whereas those without internet addiction had significant improvement in obsession-compulsion, interpersonal sensitivity, paranoid and psychoticism during the same period. CONCLUSION: Psychiatric symptoms and Internet addiction exhibited bidirectional relationships in college students during the 1-year follow-up period.
BACKGROUND/ PURPOSE: This prospective study evaluated the predictive ability of psychiatric symptoms at initial consultation for the occurrence and remission of Internet addiction during a 1-year follow-up period among college students. Furthermore, it evaluated the predictive ability of changes in psychiatric symptoms for Internet addiction at the initial consultation during the 1-year follow-up period among college students. METHODS: Five hundred college students (262 women and 238 men) were recruited. The baseline and follow-up consultations measured the levels of Internet addiction and psychiatric symptoms using the Chen Internet Addiction Scale and Symptom Checklist-90 Revised, respectively. RESULTS: The results indicated that severe interpersonal sensitivity and paranoia symptoms might predict the incidence of Internet addiction at 1-year follow-up. The college students with internet addiction did not have significant improvement in the severities of psychopathology, whereas those without internet addiction had significant improvement in obsession-compulsion, interpersonal sensitivity, paranoid and psychoticism during the same period. CONCLUSION:Psychiatric symptoms and Internet addiction exhibited bidirectional relationships in college students during the 1-year follow-up period.
Authors: Eleonora Marzilli; Luca Cerniglia; Giulia Ballarotto; Silvia Cimino Journal: Int J Environ Res Public Health Date: 2020-11-07 Impact factor: 3.390