BMC Psychiatry. 2016 Nov 17;16(1):408. Long J1,2, Liu TQ3, Liao YH1,4, Qi C1, He HY1, Chen SB1, Billieux J5,6. Abstract BACKGROUND: Smartphones are becoming a daily necessity for most undergraduates in Mainland China. Because the present scenario of problematic smartphone use (PSU) is largely unexplored, in the current study we aimed to estimate the prevalence […]
Compr Psychiatry. 2016 Oct 15;72:114-120. doi: 10.1016/j.comppsych.2016.10.006. Nie J1, Zhang W2, Liu Y3. Abstract BACKGROUND: The aims of this study were to explore depression, self-esteem and verbal fluency functions among normal internet users, mild internet addictions and severe internet addictions. METHODS: The survey sample consisted of 316 college students, and their internet addiction symptoms, depression […]
Compr Psychiatry. 2016 Oct;70:41-52. doi: 10.1016/j.comppsych.2016.06.011. Epub 2016 Jun 16. Wu AM1, Li J2, Lau JT3, Mo PK4, Lau MM5. Abstract BACKGROUND: Internet addiction (IA) is a risk factor while some psychosocial factors can be protective against depression among adolescents. Mechanisms of IA onto depression in terms of mediations and moderations involving protective factors are […]
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2016 Mar 14;13(3). pii: E313. doi: 10.3390/ijerph13030313. Tan Y1, Chen Y2, Lu Y3, Li L4. Abstract The primary aim of this study was to examine associations between problematic Internet use, depression and sleep disturbance, and explore whether there were differential effects of problematic Internet use and depression on sleep […]
Psychol Health Med. 2015 Jul 29:1-9. [Epub ahead of print] Ye YL1, Wang PG, Qu GC, Yuan S, Phongsavan P, He QQ. Abstract Although there is substantial evidence that health risk behaviors increase risks of premature morbidity and mortality, little is known about the multiple health risk behaviors in Chinese college students. Here, we investigated […]
PLoS One. 2015 Jul 14;10(7):e0131597. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0131597. Zhang Y1, Mei S2, Li L2, Chai J2, Li J2, Du H3. Abstract Internet addiction (IA) has increasingly been recognized as a serious psychological malady among college students. Impulsivity has been shown to be associated to addictive behaviors, also to IA, and that the purpose of the study […]
Addict Behav. 2014 Nov 1;42C:32-35. doi: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2014.10.039. Wang CW1, Ho RT2, Chan CL2, Tse S3. Abstract This study investigated the associations between personality traits, based on the Big Five model, and addictive behaviors to different online activities among adolescents. A sample of 920 participants was recruited from four secondary schools in different districts using random […]
PLoS One. 2014 Nov 18;9(11):e110960. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0110960. eCollection 2014. Hou J1, Huang Z2, Li H3, Liu M4, Zhang W2, Ma N2, Yang L2, Gu F2, Liu Y4, Jin S3, Zhang X5. Author information Abstract More and more college students are using microblogs, with some excessive users demonstrating addiction-like symptoms. However, there is currently no published […]
J Behav Addict. 2013 Sep;2(3):160-6. doi: 10.1556/JBA.2.2013.006. Epub 2013 Apr 12. Wu AM1, Cheung VI1, Ku L1, Hung EP2. Abstract BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Smartphones allow users to access social networking sites (SNSs) whenever and wherever they want. Such easy availability and accessibility may increase their vulnerability to addiction. Based on the social cognitive theory (SCT), […]
Int J Psychol. 2014 Oct;49(5):342-7. doi: 10.1002/ijop.12063. Yang L1, Sun L, Zhang Z, Sun Y, Wu H, Ye D. Abstract The aim of this study is to examine the mediating role of life events in the relation between Internet addiction and depression using an adolescent sample in China. A total of 3507 urban adolescent students […]