Patterns of Internet Addiction in an Italian sample: 100% of the sample experience Nomophobia
Federica Marcolini,
Gabriele Buffa,
Silvia Tempia Valenta
et al.
Abstract:Background and Objectives: Internet Addiction Disorder, a concept introduced for the first time by Ivan Goldberg in 1995, is one of the most recently identified forms of addiction, but already considered a real psychosocial phenomenon, capable of having a profound impact on different aspects of social and psychological life of individuals. One of its most recently identified manifestations is Nomophobia, a neologism formed from the combination of terms such as "no mobile", "phone" and "phobia”, that can be und… Show more
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