인터넷 중독 청소년들의 정신병리 및 대처 방식

• 영문명: The Psychopathology and Coping Strategy of Adolescent Internet Addictors
• 발행기관: 한국중독정신의학회
• 저자명: 안영균(Young Kyun Ahn) 신영철(Young Chul Shin) 고복자(Bok Ja Koh) 심진현(Jin Hyun Shim) 김범조(Bum Jo Kim) 이승민(Seung Min Lee) 이길홍(Kil Hong Lee)
• 간행물 정보: 『중독정신의학』Vol.9, No.1, 23~32쪽, 전체 10쪽
• 주제분류: 의약학 > 정신과학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2005.04.30

영문 초록

This study was conducted to investigate the differences in psychopathology and coping strategies among internet addictors, over users and non addictors in high school students. Subjects were 273 high school students in Seoul city. Self rating questionnaires included demographic data, Young’s Internet Addiction Scale, SCL-90-R, Beck Depression Inventory, Spielberger State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, and The Way of Coping Strategy. Subjects were classified into 3 groups (addiction, over use, non addiction) by Internet Addiction Scale score. Prevalence of internet addiction was 4.3% and male adolescents were more addictive than female. Students who were mainly involved with internet chatting or game showed higher internet addiction score. The addiction group and over use group showed higher level of somatization, obsession, interpersonal sensitivity, depression, anxiety, hostility, and paranoia than non-addicted group. Addiction group and over use group used passive coping strategies more frequently in the stressful situation than nonaddicted group. Also, the regression analysis for finding out causal factors that predicts internet addiction showed that emotion relieving strategy were important variable which predict internet addiction. Interpersonal sensitivity and emotion relieving coping strategy was important to predict addiction. This study showed that problematic internet use was closely associated with psychopathology and psychiatric comorbidity. And high interpersonal sensitivity and emotion relieving coping strategy were related with internet addiction in adolescence.

키워드

Internet addiction Psychopathology Coping strategy Adolescence