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The Relationship between Alexithymia, Anxiety, Depression, and Internet Addiction Severity in a Sample of Italian High School Students
We aimed to assess whether Internet addiction (IA) severity was related to alexithymia scores among high school students, taking into account the role of gender differences and the possible effect of anxiety, depression, and age. Participants in the study were 600 students (ages ranging from 13 to 2...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4221883/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25401143 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/504376 |
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author | Scimeca, Giuseppe Bruno, Antonio Cava, Lucia Pandolfo, Gianluca Muscatello, Maria Rosaria Anna Zoccali, Rocco |
author_facet | Scimeca, Giuseppe Bruno, Antonio Cava, Lucia Pandolfo, Gianluca Muscatello, Maria Rosaria Anna Zoccali, Rocco |
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description | We aimed to assess whether Internet addiction (IA) severity was related to alexithymia scores among high school students, taking into account the role of gender differences and the possible effect of anxiety, depression, and age. Participants in the study were 600 students (ages ranging from 13 to 22; 48.16% girls) recruited from three high schools in two cities from Southern Italy. Participants completed a sociodemographic questionnaire, the Toronto Alexithymia Scale, the Internet Addiction Test, the Hamilton Anxiety Scale, and the Hamilton Depression Scale. The findings of the study showed that IA scores were associated with alexithymia scores, over and above the effect of negative emotions and age. Students with pathological levels of alexithymia reported higher scores on IA severity. In particular, results showed that difficulty in identifying feelings was significantly associated with higher scores on IA severity. No effect of gender was found. Implications for clinicians were discussed. |
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spelling | pubmed-42218832014-11-16 The Relationship between Alexithymia, Anxiety, Depression, and Internet Addiction Severity in a Sample of Italian High School Students Scimeca, Giuseppe Bruno, Antonio Cava, Lucia Pandolfo, Gianluca Muscatello, Maria Rosaria Anna Zoccali, Rocco ScientificWorldJournal Research Article We aimed to assess whether Internet addiction (IA) severity was related to alexithymia scores among high school students, taking into account the role of gender differences and the possible effect of anxiety, depression, and age. Participants in the study were 600 students (ages ranging from 13 to 22; 48.16% girls) recruited from three high schools in two cities from Southern Italy. Participants completed a sociodemographic questionnaire, the Toronto Alexithymia Scale, the Internet Addiction Test, the Hamilton Anxiety Scale, and the Hamilton Depression Scale. The findings of the study showed that IA scores were associated with alexithymia scores, over and above the effect of negative emotions and age. Students with pathological levels of alexithymia reported higher scores on IA severity. In particular, results showed that difficulty in identifying feelings was significantly associated with higher scores on IA severity. No effect of gender was found. Implications for clinicians were discussed. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2014 2014-10-20 /pmc/articles/PMC4221883/ /pubmed/25401143 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/504376 Text en Copyright © 2014 Giuseppe Scimeca et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Scimeca, Giuseppe Bruno, Antonio Cava, Lucia Pandolfo, Gianluca Muscatello, Maria Rosaria Anna Zoccali, Rocco The Relationship between Alexithymia, Anxiety, Depression, and Internet Addiction Severity in a Sample of Italian High School Students |
title | The Relationship between Alexithymia, Anxiety, Depression, and Internet Addiction Severity in a Sample of Italian High School Students |
title_full | The Relationship between Alexithymia, Anxiety, Depression, and Internet Addiction Severity in a Sample of Italian High School Students |
title_fullStr | The Relationship between Alexithymia, Anxiety, Depression, and Internet Addiction Severity in a Sample of Italian High School Students |
title_full_unstemmed | The Relationship between Alexithymia, Anxiety, Depression, and Internet Addiction Severity in a Sample of Italian High School Students |
title_short | The Relationship between Alexithymia, Anxiety, Depression, and Internet Addiction Severity in a Sample of Italian High School Students |
title_sort | relationship between alexithymia, anxiety, depression, and internet addiction severity in a sample of italian high school students |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4221883/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25401143 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/504376 |
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