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Correlation of internet addiction with anxiety, depression and personality traits –Upper Egypt study

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Last updated: 04 Jan 2025

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Neuropsychiatric diseases

Abstract

Objective: The aim of the study was to investigate the relationship of Anxiety, Depression and personality traits with Internet addiction (IA) in university students. Methods: A cross-sectional survey was conducted on a random sample of 588 students selected from four faculties in Sohag University. IA was assessed by the 20-item Young Internet Addiction Test (YIAT). Information was also collected on socio-demographics, university-related factors and Internet usage patterns. Eysenck personality questionnaire (EPQ) used for Assessment of the personality traits. Taylor's Manifest Anxiety Scale was used as a general indicator of anxiety. Beck depression inventory was used for measuring the existence and the severity of depression.
Results: Findings showed that the prevalence of problematic internet use (PIU) among the studied population was 35.2%.  About 86.9% of Students with PIU significantly had anxiety also, 85.02% of Students with PIU significantly had Depression . PIU significantly had high score in Psychoticism and Neuroticism and low score in Lie and Extraversion.
Conclusion: PIU prevalent disorder among undergraduate university students in Sohag. Clinicians and health professionals should be aware of the risk of PIU in students with Anxiety ,Depression and abnormal personality triats.

DOI

10.21608/smj.2019.41383

Keywords

Internet Addiction, prevalence, depression, Anxiety and personality

Authors

First Name

Hameed

Last Name

Azab

MiddleName

Mustafa

Affiliation

Department of Neuropsychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Sohag University.

Email

hamaid_azab@med.sohag.edu.eg

City

Sohag

Orcid

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First Name

Safeya

Last Name

Effat

MiddleName

Mahmoud

Affiliation

Department of Psychiatry, faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University.

Email

-

City

Cairo

Orcid

-

First Name

Hanan

Last Name

Aly

MiddleName

yosef

Affiliation

Department of Neuropsychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Sohag University

Email

hanan_youssif@med.sohag.edu.eg

City

Sohag

Orcid

-

First Name

Osama

Last Name

Mahmoud

MiddleName

Abd Alreheem

Affiliation

Department of Neuropsychiatry, faculty of Medicine, Sohag University.

Email

osamaabdelraheem@med.sohag.edu.eg

City

Sohag

Orcid

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Volume

23

Article Issue

Issue 1

Related Issue

5652

Issue Date

2019-01-01

Receive Date

2018-11-22

Publish Date

2019-01-01

Page Start

142

Page End

153

Print ISSN

1687-8353

Online ISSN

2682-4159

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https://smj.journals.ekb.eg/article_41383.html

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785

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Journal

Publication Title

Sohag Medical Journal

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https://smj.journals.ekb.eg/

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Correlation of internet addiction with anxiety, depression and personality traits –Upper Egypt study

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Created At

22 Jan 2023