William Atkins
Thursday, 04 February 2010 02:38
Science -
Health
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Psychologists in the United Kingdom have found that people addicted to the Internet are five times more likely to be depressed than non-addicted people.
The research performed by the UK researchers concerning Internet Addiction and Depression is published in the journal
Psychopathology.
The journal article is entitled “
The Relationship between Excessive Internet Use and Depression: A Questionnaire-Based Study of 1,319 Young People and Adults” [Psychopathology 2010;43:121-126 (DOI: 10.1159/000277001)]
Its authors are
Catriona M. Morrison and Helen Gore, both from the Institute of Psychological Sciences at University of Leeds (Leeds, United Kingdom).
Internet addiction (IA) is an increasing problem in today’s society dominated by the use of the Internet, computers, and other such high-tech communications devices.
In fact, the authors state in the abstract to their paper that
“Recently there has been much public concern over the relationship between Internet use and negative affect.”Consequently, psychological researchers Morrison and Gore studied the relationship between Internet Addiction (IA) and addictive symptoms and depression.
Page two describes the study in more detail. What they found may not surprise you but it may make you more concerned than you were before.
