The Internet addiction components model and personality: Establishing construct validity via a nomological network |
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| Affiliation: | 1. International Gaming Research Unit, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, United Kingdom;2. Laboratory for Experimental Psychopathology, Psychological Sciences Research Institute, Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium;3. Internet and Gambling Disorders Clinic, Department of Adult Psychiatry, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Brussels, Belgium;1. Faculty of Human and Social Sciences, UKE — Kore University of Enna, Cittadella Universitaria, 94100 Enna, Italy;2. Department of Human Sciences, LUMSA University of Rome, Piazza delle Vaschette 101, 00193 Rome, Italy;3. Department of Psychology, University of Turin, Via Po 14, 10123 Turin, Italy;4. Laboratory for Experimental Psychopathology, Psychological Sciences Research Institute, Université Catholique de Louvain, Place du Cardinal Mercier 10, B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium;1. Yüzüncü Yıl University, Faculty of Arts, Department of Psychology, Van, Turkey;2. Nottingham Trent University, Department of Psychology, Nottingham, England;3. Ondokuz Mayıs University, Department of Psychological Counseling, Samsun, Turkey;4. Ankara University, Department of Psychological Counseling, Ankara, Turkey;5. İzmir Kâtip Çelebi University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, İzmir, Turkey;6. Yüzüncü Yıl University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Van, Turkey |
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| Abstract: | There is growing concern over excessive and sometimes problematic Internet use. Drawing upon the framework of the components model of addiction (Griffiths, 2005), Internet addiction appears as behavioural addiction characterised by the following symptoms: salience, withdrawal, tolerance, mood modification, relapse and conflict. A number of factors have been associated with an increased risk for Internet addiction, including personality traits. The overall aim of this study was to establish the association between personality traits and the Internet addiction components model in order to develop a theoretical framework via a nomological network. Internet addiction and personality traits were assessed in two independent samples of 3105 adolescents in the Netherlands and 2257 university students in England. The results indicate that low agreeableness and high neuroticism/low emotional stability are associated with the Internet addiction components factor in both samples. However, low conscientiousness and low resourcefulness predicted it in the adolescent sample only. The implications include the usage of the Internet addiction components model as parsimonious tool for the initial screening of potential clients in mental health institutes, and identifying populations at risk through their personality traits which may prove advantageous for the initiation of targeted prevention efforts. |
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| Keywords: | Internet addiction Addiction components model Personality Nomological network Construct validity |
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