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Prevalence of different types of online behavior and internet addiction among adolescents in central siberia: Gender and age aspects

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 August 2021

N. Semenova ,
S. Tereshchenko ,
L. Evert L ,
Y. Kostyuchenko  and
M. Shubina
N. Semenova*
Affiliation:
Scientific Research Institute For Medical Problems Of The North, Federal Budgetary Scientific Institution «Federal Research Centre «Krasnoyarsk Scientific Centre of Siberian Division of Russian Academy of Sciences», Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation Research Institute For Medical Problems In The North, Federal Research Center “Krasnoyarsk Scientific Center of the Siberian Branch of the RAS”, Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation
S. Tereshchenko
Affiliation:
Scientific Research Institute For Medical Problems Of The North, Federal Budgetary Scientific Institution «Federal Research Centre «Krasnoyarsk Scientific Centre of Siberian Division of Russian Academy of Sciences», Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation
L. Evert L
Affiliation:
Scientific Research Institute For Medical Problems Of The North, Federal Budgetary Scientific Institution «Federal Research Centre «Krasnoyarsk Scientific Centre of Siberian Division of Russian Academy of Sciences», Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation
Y. Kostyuchenko
Affiliation:
Scientific Research Institute For Medical Problems Of The North, Federal Budgetary Scientific Institution «Federal Research Centre «Krasnoyarsk Scientific Centre of Siberian Division of Russian Academy of Sciences», Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation
M. Shubina
Affiliation:
Scientific Research Institute For Medical Problems Of The North, Federal Budgetary Scientific Institution «Federal Research Centre «Krasnoyarsk Scientific Centre of Siberian Division of Russian Academy of Sciences», Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation
*
*Corresponding author.

Abstract

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Introduction

Adolescent online behavior is an urgent public health problem in different countries of the world due to the possibility of developing Internet addiction.

Objectives

To study the prevalence of different types of online behavior and Internet addiction in Siberian adolescents, depending on gender and age.

Methods

During the period from January to May 2019, 2950 adolescents aged 11-18 years living in the urban area of Central Siberia (Krasnoyarsk) were examined, of them 1348 boys and 1602 girls. The Chen Internet Addiction Scale (CIAS) with a cut-off level of 65 points was used. Internet users are divided into three groups: Adaptive Internet Users (AIU) (27–42 points); maladaptive Internet users (MIU) (43–64 points); pathological Internet users (PIU) (score ≥ 65).

Results

The AIU group comprised 50.3% (55.9% boys and 45.6% girls, p <0.001). The share of adolescents aged 11-14 is 52.0%, the share of adolescents aged 15-18 is 48.4% (p = 0.04). The MIU group constituted 42.9% (46.3% were girls and 38.9% boys, p <0.001). The share of adolescents aged 11-14 is 42.1%, and those aged 15-18 is 43.8%, p > 0.05. The PIU group constituted 6.8% (5.1% boys and 8.2% girls, p <0.001). The share of adolescents aged 11-14 is 5.9% and those aged 15-18 is 7.8% (p = 0.04).

Conclusions

Among adolescents in Central Siberia the prevalence of AIU consist 50.3%, MIU 42.9%, PIU 6.8%. The prevalence of PIU is more common in girls. The increase in PIU was marked in the older age group. The study was funded by RFBR project № 18-29-2203218.

Conflict of interest

The reported study was funded by RFBR project № 18-29-22032\18.

Keywords

InternetAddictionprevalenceSiberia
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European Psychiatry , Volume 64 , Special Issue S1: Abstracts of the 29th European Congress of Psychiatry , April 2021 , pp. S371 - S372
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