Could ADHD symptoms make individuals susceptible for Internet addiction?

Author

Vand, Safa Rafiei ; Ghassemi, Farnaz

Author_Institution

Fac. of Bio Med. Eng., Amirkabir Univ. of Technol., Tehran, Iran

fYear

2014

Firstpage

324

Lastpage

328

Abstract

In recent years, the number of Internet users amazingly has grown. As a result, number of Internet-related problems like Internet addiction has increased too. Many studies have been done in the past ten years and this issue has attracted attention of many researchers. It has reported some psychiatric disorders are associated with Internet addiction but mechanism of this relation has been not discovered yet. ADHD as one the most prevalent comorbidities of Internet addiction needs more work. This study has tried to explore the relation between these two disorders using CAARS, WURS and YIAT questionnaires in a sample group of Iranian university students. In-line with previous studies correlation has been observed between ADHD and Internet addiction. Furthermore, factor analysis has been done on CAARS and WURS and impact of each of the factors and questions of the questionnaires has been discussed.

Keywords

Internet; medical disorders; psychology; ADHD symptoms; CAARS; Conner´s adult ADHD rating scale; Internet addiction; Internet-related problems; WURS; Wender-Utah rating scale; YIAT; Young´s Internet addiction testing; attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder; psychiatric disorders; Biomedical engineering; Conferences; Educational institutions; Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD); CAARS questionnaire; Internet addiction; Wender-Utah Rating Scale (WURS); Young Internet Addiction Test (YIAT); factor analysis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Biomedical Engineering (ICBME), 2014 21th Iranian Conference on

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-7417-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICBME.2014.7043944

Filename

7043944