Internet Anxiety: Myth or Reality?

Kalwar, Santosh Kumar; Heikkinen, Kari; Porras, Jari

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-39342-6_47

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“…(2) Participants who visited SNS weekly were heavily relating with social networking anxiety. This is in line with ongoing research in this area [1,12]. (3) Participants who felt that SNS do not cause anxieties were relating with positive beliefs about the Internet.…”

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“…The introduction of social media sites and various apps or services on the application layer is changing the Internet ecosystem. This change is manifesting itself in new types of anxiety in users [5,7,12]. Furthermore, perhaps reflecting the time when it was written, the items of the IAS scale do not include any words/terms associated with social networking sites (SNS).…”

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Kalwar

Heikkinen

Porras

2013

Proceedings of International Conference on Making Sense of Converging Media

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The Internet experience has drastically changed as social networking sites have proliferated and become a major part of Internet usage. This change in the Internet landscape and Internet usage poses an interesting challenge for scales addressing Internet behavior. In this work, we describe further development of an Internet anxiety scale for assessment of Internet behavior, presenting underlying concepts, and analysis and evaluation of human anxiety on the Internet. A study was conducted with initially twenty-five participants, and later a survey with (n=385) university participants was carried out to determine MIAS factors. Based on analysis of the results of the surveys and using a modified Internet anxiety scale (MIAS), user data can be leveraged to measure Internet anxiety. The results of the study illustrate an ongoing progression in addressing issues faced by anxious users and indicate future directions of measuring Internet anxiety.

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Porras

2013

Proceedings of International Conference on Making Sense of Converging Media

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“…Similar fear has been described in work focussing on the more recent impact of digitalization on job security and quality [60]. Further evidence for a relationship between digitalization and anxiety or depression may be represented in the rising prevalence of psychopathological problems such as computer anxiety [61], replacement fear, digitalization fear, internet anxiety, and technostress.…”

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confidence: 56%

Increasing digitalization is associated with anxiety and depression: A Google Ngram analysis

2023

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The prevalence of anxiety disorders and depression are rising worldwide. Studies investigating risk factors on a societal level leading to these rises are so far limited to social-economic status, social capital, and unemployment, while most such studies rely on self-reports to investigate these factors. Therefore, our study aims to evaluate the impact of an additional factor on a societal level, namely digitalization, by using a linguistic big data approach. We extend related work by using the Google Books Ngram Viewer (Google Ngram) to retrieve and adjust word frequencies from a large corpus of books (8 million books or 6 percent of all books ever published) and to subsequently investigate word changes in terms of anxiety disorders, depression, and digitalization. Our analyses comprise and compare data from six languages, British English, German, Spanish, Russian, French, and Italian. We also retrieved word frequencies for the control construct “religion”. Our results show an increase in word frequency for anxiety, depression, and digitalization over the last 50 years (r = .79 to .89, p < .001), a significant correlation between the frequency of anxiety and depression words (r = .98, p < .001), a significant correlation between the frequency of anxiety and digitalization words (r = .81, p < .001), and a significant correlation between the frequency of depression and anxiety words (r = .81, p < .001). For the control construct religion, we found no significant correlations for word frequency over the last 50 years and no significant correlation between the frequency of anxiety and depression words. Our results showed a negative correlation between the frequency of depression and religion words (r = -.25, p < .05). We also improved the method by excluding terms with double meanings detected by 73 independent native speakers. Implications for future research and professional and clinical implications of these findings are discussed.

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“…In a document of research "Mapping major changes to education and training in 2025", Stoyanov et al [35] declared that in the future (next 5 years), the major changes in the education field will be in rapport between formal and informal training and integration of learning styles with the new technologies and how to deliver these information [17]. These challenges for pre-service and in-service professional training determined very different attitudes from positive, such as enthusiasm, enjoyment, satisfaction, flow [36,37] to anxious-stress, frustration, fear, experience feeling of discomfort [6,14,38,39]. This attitude about innovation in the technology field influences the educational process at cognitive or moral levels and the use of ICT depends on this attitude for using electronical tools [5,6,13,14,24,25,40].…”

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The Development and Validation of a Scale to Measure University Teachers’ Attitude towards Ethical Use of Information Technology for a Sustainable Education

2020

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A self-administered measurement tool was developed and validated to provide data regarding ethical attitude of university teachers for a sustainable education. The research was based on several factors involved in forming attitudes towards the unethical information technology use. The sample: 334 Romanian teachers’ respondents who teach in the higher education system contributed to this research. A successions of factor analyses and structural equation modeling showed that a second-order model is a good fit for experimental data (χ2/df = 1.75, comparative fit index = 0.958, root mean square error of approximation = 0.045), however the partial least square (PLS-SEM) CFA approach revealed higher scores of factor loadings, implying the best fit to the model. This research suggested a structural model of ethical attitude of university teachers, composed by four factors measured by 13 indices. The results demonstrated that PLS-SEM CFA is appropriate for creating a valid structural model to measure university teachers’ ICT ethical attitude. The current research predicted a theoretical contribution to the field of ethical attitude of university teachers within a sustainable education context.

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Internet Anxiety: Myth or Reality?

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