Internet, internet addiction disorder, behaviour, problematic internet use.
Abstract
There has been an explosive growth in the use of internet not only worldwide but in India also in the last decade. There were about 4,536,248,808 active internet users in India in 2019. The term “internet addiction” was proposed by Dr. Ivan Goldberg 2 in 1995 for pathological compulsive internet use. According to Griffith it is a subset of behaviour addiction and any behaviour that meets the 6 “core components” of addiction, i.e., mood 3 modification, conflict, tolerance and withdrawal.
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Unique Paper ID: 154782
Publication Volume & Issue: Volume 8, Issue 12
Page(s): 351 - 354
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