Prevalence of problematic Internet use during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic

The present paper reviews recent studies on problematic Internet use (PIU) prevalence before and during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Several pre-pandemic meta-analyses reported PIU prevalence estimates ranging from 6% to 9.7%. Experts in the field of online addictions speculated...

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Autores principales: Burkauskas, Julius, Gecaite-Stonciene, Julija, Demetrovics, Zsolt, Griffiths, Mark D, Király, Orsolya
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Publicado: Elsevier Ltd. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9197820/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35719702
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cobeha.2022.101179
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author Burkauskas, Julius
Gecaite-Stonciene, Julija
Demetrovics, Zsolt
Griffiths, Mark D
Király, Orsolya
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description The present paper reviews recent studies on problematic Internet use (PIU) prevalence before and during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Several pre-pandemic meta-analyses reported PIU prevalence estimates ranging from 6% to 9.7%. Experts in the field of online addictions speculated that PIU would increase during the pandemic because of increased time spent on the Internet. However, it is still unclear if increased time on the Internet resulted in higher PIU prevalence estimates during the pandemic. Prevalence estimates differed greatly across studies during the COVID-19 pandemic. Possible inconsistencies are outlined together with future directions for PIU prevalence studies.
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spelling pubmed-91978202022-06-15 Prevalence of problematic Internet use during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic Burkauskas, Julius Gecaite-Stonciene, Julija Demetrovics, Zsolt Griffiths, Mark D Király, Orsolya Curr Opin Behav Sci Article The present paper reviews recent studies on problematic Internet use (PIU) prevalence before and during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Several pre-pandemic meta-analyses reported PIU prevalence estimates ranging from 6% to 9.7%. Experts in the field of online addictions speculated that PIU would increase during the pandemic because of increased time spent on the Internet. However, it is still unclear if increased time on the Internet resulted in higher PIU prevalence estimates during the pandemic. Prevalence estimates differed greatly across studies during the COVID-19 pandemic. Possible inconsistencies are outlined together with future directions for PIU prevalence studies. Elsevier Ltd. 2022-08 2022-06-15 /pmc/articles/PMC9197820/ /pubmed/35719702 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cobeha.2022.101179 Text en © 2022 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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