The Self-Absorptive Trait of Dissociative Experience and Problematic Internet Use

A National Birth Cohort Study

Bibliographic Data

ID15501867
AuthorsFor-Wey Lung (Calo Psychiatric Center, Pingtung 92541, Taiwan), For‐Wey Lung (0000-0002-4505-7583, National Sun Yat-sen University), Bih-Ching Shu (0000-0001-7697-1493, National Cheng Kung University, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume18
Issue22
Pages11848-11848
Publication date2021-11-12
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1661-7827 • E-ISSN: 1660-4601
PublisherMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (PUBLISHER • CH)
DOI10.3390/ijerph182211848
PMID34831604
OpenAlexW3214317252
LanguageEN
References cited34

Functional and excessive use of internet are hard to distinguish from each other, and internet use can affect adolescents' development of self-identity. The aim of our study was to investigate the associated relationships between the risk and protective factors for internet use, including parental monitoring, the absorptive dissociative trait, having been bullied, exercise, self-perceived depressive mood, and happiness of 12-year-old adolescents. The Taiwan Birth Cohort Study dataset, which used a national household probability sampling method and included 17,694 12-year-old adolescents, was used for this study. Our results showed that 5.3% of adolescents reported spending more than five hours online during school days. Additionally, adolescents that spent more than five hours online during school days tended to have a higher absorptive trait, perceived less care from mothers, were more likely to have been bullied, and expressed a higher level of depressed mood, which led to a lower level of perceived happiness. Adolescents that spent more than five hours online during school days, compared to those that spent less than an hour online, were more likely to have been bullied, which effected their level of happiness, showing that they may be a group of higher concern. Therefore, spending more than five hours per day online maybe a clinical prevention indicator for problematic internet use

Cohort · Cohort study · Experience sampling method · Happiness · Mood · The Internet · Trait · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development · Child Development and Digital Technology · Clinical Psychology · Demography · Impact of Technology on Adolescents · Medicine · Psychology · Social Psychology

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