Internet Addiction and Personality: Association with Impulsive Sensation Seeking and Neuroticism-Anxiety Traits
Introduction: The internet has revolutionized the information age. There has been growing concern regarding internet addiction, despite its benefits. Personality trait such as neuroticism has been linked with internet addiction. Objective: The aim of the present study was to determine the prevalen...
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Japan International Cultural Exchange Foundation
2017
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| Online Access: | http://eprints.usm.my/44403/ http://eprints.usm.my/44403/1/IA%20Personality%20IMJ%2024%285%29375%20-%20378.pdf |
| Summary: | Introduction: The internet has revolutionized the information age. There has been growing concern regarding internet addiction,
despite its benefits. Personality trait such as neuroticism has been linked with internet addiction.
Objective: The aim of the present study was to determine the prevalence of internet addiction and its association with personality
traits among college students.
Methods: College students age 18-24 who were doing an attachment in a government hospital were recruited into the study.
Internet addiction was assessed using the internet addiction test (IAT), whilst personality traits by using the cross cultural
Malay language 40-item Zuckerman-Kuhlman personality questionnaire (ZKPQ-M-40-CC)
Results: The prevalence of internet addiction was 31.8%, with moderate and severe use of internet at 30.7% and 1.1%,
respectively. Based on multiple logistic regression analysis, the impulsive sensation seeking and neuroticism-anxiety traits were
found to be significantly associated with internet addiction.
Conclusions: The prevalence of internet addiction is comparable to other studies conducted in Malaysia. Personality traits
impulsive sensation seeking and neuroticism-anxiety emerged as significant associated factors with internet addiction. Further
study to understand the role of personality traits in the development of internet addiction is recommended. |
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