Relationships among Personality Traits,Motive of Internet Use,And Tendency of Internet Addiction / 中国临床心理学杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective: To investigate the relationship among personality traits,motive of Internet use and tendency of Internet Addiction.Methods: Scale of Internet use,NEO-PI-R and Chinese Internet Addiction Scale(CIAS) were administrated to 207 university and high school students.Results: ①Tendency of Internet addiction was significantly correlated positively with openness(O)and agreeableness(A),and negatively with neuroticism(N).②Tendency of Internet addiction showed significant difference among motive of entertainment,study,information and intercommunication,and those who had higher tendency of Internet addiction would have stronger motive.③Internet addiction could be validly predicted by motive of information,entertainment and personality traits of neuroticism(N).Conclusion: Tendency of Internet addiction is affected by personality traits and motive of Internet use.