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The Level of Internet Addiction Positively Associated with the Severity of Depression and Anxiety Amongst Secondary School Students in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 April 2020

D. Begovic ,
I. Pajevic ,
M. Hasanovic  and
E. Avdibegovic
D. Begovic
Affiliation:
School of Medicine, University of Tuzla Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina
I. Pajevic
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University Clinical Center Tuzla Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina
M. Hasanovic
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University Clinical Center Tuzla Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina
E. Avdibegovic
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University Clinical Center Tuzla Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Abstract

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Background

The Internet is a new technology that has affected the world and provides many benefits to its users. In the same time it became a serious threatening to adolescents’ psychological wellbeing because of their more and more tendencies towards the internet addiction.

Objectives

To analyze the prevalence of internet addiction amongst secondary school adolescents, and to assess it's association with the levels of depression, anxiety and aggressiveness.

Methods

The sample consisted of 226 students of the first and fourth grade from two secondary schools in Tuzla, who at home have access to the Internet. We used the Internet YIAS, BDI, BAI, State trait anger expression inventory – STAXI-2 Staxi.

Results

The adolescents used the most frequently social networks on the Internet. Obtained results showed that 17.3 % of 226 met criteria for Internet Addiction. There were significant positive association of the Internet addiction level with the severity of depression (Pearsons’ 'r”=0,310, P=0,001) and anxiety (Pearsons’ 'r”=0,219, P=0,001) amongst the tested adolescents. On the other side, level of the Internet addiction was not associated with the severity of aggressiveness (Pearsons’ 'r”= -0,018, P=0,791).

Conclusions

Excessive internet use is associated with a variety of psychosocial problems among young people. Internet addiction was positively associated with the depression and anxiety severity, but it was not associated with the severity of aggressiveness amongst school adolescents.

Type
Article: 1077
Information
European Psychiatry , Volume 30 , Issue S1: Abstracts of the 23rd European Congress of Psychiatry , March 2015 , pp. 1
Copyright
Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2015
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