Copyright © 2026 Authors retain the copyright of this article. This article is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

@article{154782,
        author = {Nikita Harishchandra Usendi},
        title = {Internet Addiction Disorder},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {},
        volume = {8},
        number = {12},
        pages = {351-354},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=154782},
        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.},
        keywords = {Internet, internet addiction disorder, behaviour, problematic internet use.},
        month = {},
        }