Psychosocial Factors of to Internet Addiction Disorder in College Students / 中国心理卫生杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective:To investigate the psychosocial factors related to Internet Addiction Disorder(IAD) in Chinese college students.Methods:1712 college students aged from 17 to 25 were collected from some universities or colleges in Wuhan City by cluster sampling, they accepted a questionnaire investigation. An unconditional Logistic stepwise regression analysis was employed to analyze the related psychosocial factors.Result:The rate of internet use was 94.5%. The prevalence rate of IAD among college students was 9.9%. No-condition Logistic stepwise regression analysis showed that males, the education of mother, anxiety, depression, social phobia and the attraction from internet use were risk factors for internet addiction but self-confident is a protective factor.Conclusion:IAD among college students is not rare, factors such as sex, mental health are associated with IAD.