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      Computer playfulness, Internet dependency and their relationships with online activity types and student academic performance.

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          Prior research on Internet dependency has examined various individual traits as contributing factors. Since domain-specific traits tend to have higher abilities to explain outcome variables, this study investigates a technology-related specific trait, i.e., computer playfulness, as a predictor of Internet dependency, and their influence on Internet usage patterns and academic performance.

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          Time Flies When You're Having Fun: Cognitive Absorption and Beliefs about Information Technology Usage

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            The Compulsive Internet Use Scale (CIUS): some psychometric properties.

            G.-J. Meerkerk, R J J M van den Eijnden, A. A. Vermulst … (2009)
            The present study aimed to develop a short, easily administered, psychometrically sound, and valid instrument to assess the severity of compulsive Internet use. A set of criteria was determined based on the addiction literature. Next, the internal consistency and convergent validity were determined, and the set was tested as a one-factor solution in two representative samples of heavy Internet users (n = 447 and n = 229) and in one large convenience sample of regular Internet users (n = 16,925). In these three studies, respondents were asked about their online behavior and about problems related to Internet use. In the first study, the Online Cognition Scale (OCS) was included to determine concurrent validity. The newly developed Compulsive Internet Use Scale (CIUS) contains 14 items ratable on a 5-point Likert scale. The instrument showed good factorial stability across time and across different samples and subsamples. The internal consistency is high, and high correlations with concurrent and criterion variables demonstrate good validity.
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              Psychology of computer use: XL. Addictive use of the Internet: a case that breaks the stereotype.

              K. S. Young (1996)
              This case involves a homemaker 43 years of age who is addicted to using the Internet. This case was selected as it demonstrates that a nontechnologically oriented woman with a reportedly content home life and no prior addiction or psychiatric history abused the Internet which resulted in significant impairment to her family life. This paper defines addictive use of the Internet, outlines the subject's progression of addictive on-line use, and discusses the implications of such addictive behavior on the new market of Internet consumers.
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                Journal ID (iso-abbrev): J Behav Addict
                Title: Journal of behavioral addictions
                Publisher: Akademiai Kiado Zrt.
                ISSN: 2062-5871
                ISSN (Print): 2062-5871
                Publication date (Electronic): Jun 2012
                Volume: 1
                Issue: 2
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                DOI: 10.1556/JBA.1.2012.2.5
                PubMed ID: 26165309
                SO-VID: d32ca76c-18e3-4f59-9c0d-c7ad845ba41d
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                Keywords: computer playfulness,Internet dependency,individual trait,Internet addiction
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                Keywords: computer playfulness, Internet dependency, individual trait, Internet addiction

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