Problematic Internet Use among university students of Bangladesh: The predictive role of age, gender, and loneliness

Akhter, Md. Sayeed; Islam, Mohammad Habibul; Momen, Md Nurul

doi:10.1080/10911359.2020.1784346

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“…Similar results were found by Sechi et al [18] who conducted research with 362 university students and found that age negatively affects problematic internet use, with younger people being more likely to develop addictive internet behavior than older people. Similarly, Akhter et al [20] conducted research with 432 university students and found that young university students had more problematic internet use compared to the senior university students in the study.…”

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“…With the transition from adolescence to adulthood, the amount of time spent on the Internet increases [19]. Young adults, especially college students, are at an increased risk of problematic internet use due to the ease of access, either via mobile phone or computer, on college campuses [20]. Moreover, it is a stage where the management of time spent on the Internet becomes the responsibility of the individual, and the family takes a back seat.…”

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“…Moreover, it is a stage where the management of time spent on the Internet becomes the responsibility of the individual, and the family takes a back seat. Young university students enjoy freedom and a lack of parental control over what they say and do online, as most of them live away from their parents or in university dorms [19,20]. Similarly, internet use by university students is very varied and includes activities such as searching for academic information, communicating and interacting with friends through social networks, downloading and watching videos and films and playing online games [20].…”

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“…Young university students enjoy freedom and a lack of parental control over what they say and do online, as most of them live away from their parents or in university dorms [19,20]. Similarly, internet use by university students is very varied and includes activities such as searching for academic information, communicating and interacting with friends through social networks, downloading and watching videos and films and playing online games [20]. For this reason, as adolescents and young adults have become the group that makes the most use of the Internet, research on problematic internet use has increased at this stage [21,22].…”

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“…For this reason, as adolescents and young adults have become the group that makes the most use of the Internet, research on problematic internet use has increased at this stage [21,22]. However, previous studies generally focus on all university students, without making distinctions between different study programs [19,20]. The number of studies that focus on university students who are to be future teachers, educators or social workers is very limited [23].…”

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Internet use has been steadily and unstoppably gaining ground in all areas of life, from recreational activities to the establishment of social relations. However, addictive use of the Internet is a problem that seriously affects some people. Factors that may influence the occurrence of inappropriate internet use include age and social skills. For this reason, the aim of this study is to analyze the influence of social skills and age on the development of problematic internet use in university students. The study involved 514 students enrolled at a university in Spain, who filled in two questionnaires, one on problematic internet use and the other on social skills. Multivariate multiple linear regression models revealed that some social skills variables (conversation and social ease, empathic and positive feeling skills, risk coping) predicted problematic internet use. In addition, age played a role in preference for online social interaction and deficient self-regulation. Younger students were more at risk of having obsessive thoughts related to internet use and of engaging in compulsive internet use compared to older students.

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Cyber4Dev‐Q: Calibrating cyber awareness in the developing country context

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Citizens of the hyper-connected world face tremendous challenges in managing their personal online risks; that is to preserve their cyber safety, cyber security and cyber privacy. Governments allocate significant resources to raising awareness about these three areas among their citizens to equip them to manage their online risks. To ensure maximum efficacy, these endeavors must be able to gauge existing levels of awareness to ensure that awareness-creation drives target population-level awareness gaps. A number of excellent and rigorously developed questionnaires exist for this purpose. However, these may not be as accurate in revealing awareness gaps and issues in developing countries. Developing country citizens face a range of context-specific challenges, distinct from those faced by developed country citizens.These are likely to impact their cyber awareness development and maintenance. A context-sensitive cyber awareness measurement instrument designed for such a context has a better chance of revealing particular awareness aspects requiring attention.To meet this need, we developed and validated a cyber awareness questionnaire, the cyber awareness calibration instrument for developing countries (Cyber4Dev-Q), for use in developing countries to measure the cyber awareness of their citizens in all three core cyber areas in a context-sensitive fashion.

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Associations Between Problematic Internet Use and Mental Health Outcomes of Students: A Meta-analytic Review

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The increasing prevalence of problematic internet use has heightened concerns about its adverse impact on internet users’ mental health. Despite reviews investigating the associations between problematic internet use and mental health outcomes, there is a lack of understanding of various aspects of students’ mental health. This study aimed to bridge this gap by providing a more comprehensive overall picture of this issue through a quantitative synthesis based on three-level random-effects meta-analytic models. In total, 223 studies with a cumulative total of 498,167 participants and 512 effect sizes were included in this synthesis. The results showed that problematic internet use was moderately and positively associated with depressive symptoms, anxiety, loneliness, and other mental health outcomes, and negatively related to subjective well-being. Moderator analyses revealed that several study features (i.e., school grade, region, measure of problematic internet use, publication year, and gender) could explain the variations in the findings across individual studies. These research results provide solid evidence for the link between problematic internet use and different mental health outcomes and have implications for future research and interventions on students’ problematic internet use. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s40894-022-00201-9.

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Problematic Internet Use among university students of Bangladesh: The predictive role of age, gender, and loneliness

Cited by 14 publications

References 38 publications

Problematic Internet Use among University Students and Its Relationship with Social Skills

Problematic Internet Use among University Students and Its Relationship with Social Skills

Cyber4Dev‐Q: Calibrating cyber awareness in the developing country context

Associations Between Problematic Internet Use and Mental Health Outcomes of Students: A Meta-analytic Review

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