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Addiction Medicine
Studies from C.F. Yen et al provide new data on addiction medicine
July 1st, 2009
"The aim of the present study was to examine the discriminative effects of sociodemographic, individual, family, peers, and school life factors on Internet addiction in Taiwanese adolescents. A total of 8941 adolescents were recruited and completed the questionnaires," scientists in Taipei, Taiwan report. "Multidimensional discriminative factors for Internet addiction were examined using chi-squared automatic interaction detection for gender and sex. Depression and low family monitoring were the discriminative factors for Internet addiction in all four gender- and age-specified groups of adolescents. Low connectedness to school, high family conflict, having friends with...
Source: Biotech Week (2009-07-01)
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