Features of Internet addiction and time spent on the Internet among students from different regions of Russia

Gal'chenko A.; Poskotinova L.; Grigorev P.

doi:10.14529/jpps220401

A. S. Gal'chenko Crimean Republican Institute of Postgraduate Pedagogical Education (15 Lenina str, Simferopol, Republic of Crimea, 295000, Russia) https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0905-6612 asg.7@mail.ru
L. V. Poskotinova Federal Research Center for the Comprehensive Study of the Arctic named after Academician N.P. Laverov of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Severnaya Dvina embankment, 23, Arkhangelsk, 163000, Russia) https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7537-0837 liliya200572@mail.ru
P. E. Grigorev Sevastopol State University (33 Universitetskaya Str., Sevastopol’, 299053, Russia) https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7390-9109 grigorievpe@cfuv.ru

DOI: https://doi.org/10.14529/jpps220401

Keywords: internet, virtual reality, Internet addiction, signs of Internet addiction, Internet activity, climatic and geographical conditions, potentially addictive agent

Abstract

Background: the active use of Internet resources combined with relative personal autonomy and the immaturity of personal and psychophysiological structures creates increased risks for Internet addiction in adolescents. Aims: the paper aims to identify the features of the structure of Internet addiction and its relationship with time spent on the internet among students from different regions of the Russian Federation. Materials and methods: the sample consisted of 134 high school students (aged from 16 to 17 years)
living in Arkhangelsk, Nadym, and Simferopol. The Chen Internet addiction scale (modified by K.A. Feklisov, V.L. Malygin) and a questionnaire aimed at identifying the time spent on the Internet were used, as were the following methods of statistical processing: one-factor analysis of variance (ANOVA), the Newman–Keuls test, and the Spearman rank correlation coefficient. Results: a general pattern has been revealed as being associated with a greater severity of individual symptoms of Internet addiction and time spent on the Internet in children from the northern region compared with those from the southern region; students of Simferopol exhibit a linear correlation between Internet addiction and time spent on the Internet compared with students of Arkhangelsk or Nadym. Conclusion: adolescents living in the Northern and Southern regions of Russia demonstrate features of Internet addiction, which result in a different response to a potentially addictive agent. The critical value of the time spent on the Internet, after which this factor causes a pathogenic effect, will be different between the groups due to different individual typological reactions to aggravating climatic and geographical conditions.

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Author Biographies

A. S. Gal'chenko , Crimean Republican Institute of Postgraduate Pedagogical Education (15 Lenina str, Simferopol, Republic of Crimea, 295000, Russia)

Candidate of Psychological Sciences, Academic Secretary

L. V. Poskotinova , Federal Research Center for the Comprehensive Study of the Arctic named after Academician N.P. Laverov of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Severnaya Dvina embankment, 23, Arkhangelsk, 163000, Russia)

Doctor of Biological Sciences, Candidate of Medical Sciences, Associate Professor, Chief Researcher, Head of the Biorhythmology Laboratory

P. E. Grigorev , Sevastopol State University (33 Universitetskaya Str., Sevastopol’, 299053, Russia)

Doctor of Biological Sciences, Associate Professor, Professor of the Department of Psychology

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