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Discover LudwigThe phrase "addictive internet" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe the internet as something that can lead to compulsive or excessive use, often negatively impacting a person's life.
Example: "Many people struggle with the addictive internet, finding it hard to disconnect from social media and online games."
Alternatives: "compulsive internet" or "habit-forming internet".
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Based on these results, interventions designed to enhance adolescents' emotion regulatory abilities have the likelihood to mitigate problematic and even addictive Internet use among youth.
Despite the critical role of emotion regulation in the development of adolescents' behaviors and the role of parenting interactions on their children's behaviors, little research has examined these links with reference to problematic and addictive Internet use for adolescents.
In "Ready Player One," the novelist Ernest Cline extrapolates from the ripples that rising energy prices and climate change send through the economy, and gives us a future where the suburbs die off and many people are packed into in high-rise urban trailer parks, spending their days on an increasingly addictive Internet instead of facing the quotidian squalor.
One explanation for this may be that males are more likely to play online games, engage in cybersex, view cyberporn, and gamble online, all of which are associated with addictive Internet use [ 38].
IA is a broader construct which comprises internet gaming and other forms of addictive internet usage (e.g. addictive downloading, excessive use of social networking sites and addictive online shopping).
This decision was based on a comparably large scientific and clinical literature dealing with the phenomenon of addictive internet use sometimes referred to as "problematic internet use" [ 5], "pathological internet use" [ 6], or "internet addiction" [ 2, 7].
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Addictive substances, Internet time wasters, negative people and unproductive pastimes are examples of things and activities to avoid if you want to attract more abundance in your life.
Systematic differences according to the Big Five personality traits were identified between patients suffering from an addiction disorder and patients showing internet addictive behavior as a comorbid disorder.
The present qualitative study explored the experiences, patterns and impact of use of 124 adolescents (Mage = 16.0) reporting signs of internet addictive behaviors.
Bright sparks Renumbering the net Towards the 15-minute genome How illuminating No jam tomorrow Betting on green ReprintsSceptics say there is nothing uniquely addictive about the internet.
The new findings join a growing body of research investigating the addictive potential of Internet social media use.
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