Title :
Influencing factors of adolescent internet addiction
Author :
Shaohua Huang ; Fengjuan Shen
Author_Institution :
Ningbo Inst. of Technol., Zhejiang Univ., Ningbo, China
Abstract :
Addiction is one of major social issues in modern life. With the rapid popularization and the widespread use of the Internet, Internet addiction, as a new form of social addiction, aroused increasing attention from society. This paper attempts to build an analytical framework with the independent variables of adolescents´ individual characteristics, differences in the real society and the degree of Internet using, and the dependent variables of the determination and tendency of the addiction to analyze and card the factors influencing adolescent Internet addiction from the structure-agent perspective, and based on that, it proposes basic countermeasures on the social control of adolescent Internet addiction.
Keywords :
Internet; social aspects of automation; Internet usage degree; adolescent Internet addiction; social addiction; structure-agent perspective; Cities and towns; Computers; Correlation; Educational institutions; Gallium nitride; Internet; Regression analysis;
Conference_Titel :
Web Society (SWS), 2010 IEEE 2nd Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Beijing
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-6356-5
DOI :
10.1109/SWS.2010.5607395