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APS Virtual Poster Showcase · 2020

Internet Addiction and Its Correlates

Virtual · June 2020

Poster Sessions · General

  • Sidney Rafilson
    Central Oregon Community College
  • Madison Kerkmann
    Central Oregon Community College
  • Fred Rafilson
    Aspiring Minds LLC

Abstract

An Internet Addiction (IA) scale was developed and administered to 404 subjects. Fifty percent met the criteria for IA and significant correlations between IA severity and multiple psychiatric symptoms were identified. IA rates are rising and IA should be added to the DSM and treated as a public health concern.

Addiction