- Title Pages
- List of tables and figures
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on contributors
- One Theoretical framework for children's internet use
- Two Methodological framework: the EU Kids Online project
- Three Cognitive interviewing and responses to EU Kids Online survey questions
- Four Which children are fully online?
- Five Varieties of access and use
- Six Online opportunities
- Seven Digital skills in the context of media literacy
- Eight Between public and private: privacy in social networking sites
- Nine Experimenting with the self online: a risky opportunity
- Ten Young Europeans' Online environments: a typology of user practices
- Eleven Bullying
- Twelve ‘Sexting’: the exchange of sexual messages online among European youth
- Thirteen Pornography
- Fourteen Meeting new contacts online
- Fifteen Excessive internet use among European children
- Sixteen Coping and resilience: children's responses to online risks
- Seventeen Agents of mediation and sources of safety awareness: a comparative overview
- Eighteen The effectiveness of parental mediation
- Nineteen Effectiveness of teachers' and peers' mediation in supporting opportunities and reducing risks online
- Twenty Understanding digital inequality: the interplay between parental socialisation and children's development
- Twenty-one Similarities and differences across Europe
- Twenty-Two Mobile access: different users, different risks, different consequences?
- Twenty-Three Explaining vulnerability to risk and harm
- Twenty-Four Relating online practices, negative experiences and coping strategies
- Twenty-five Towards a general model of determinants of risk and safety
- Twenty-Six Policy implications and recommendations: now what?
- Appendix: Key variables used in EU Kids Online analyses
- References
- Index
Excessive internet use among European children
Excessive internet use among European children
- Chapter:
- (p.191) Fifteen Excessive internet use among European children
- Source:
- Children, risk and safety on the internet
- Author(s):
David Šmahel
Lukš Blinka
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
The term ‘excessive internet use’ is often associated with determining pathological extensive internet usage, which could also be called ‘online addiction’. Such excessive presence online is usually defined by the following components used for determining other types of addictive behaviour: salience, mood change, conflicts, tolerance, relapse, reinstatement and withdrawal symptoms. The described behaviour may lead to the social, mental and also physical impairment of children and youth. This chapter introduces and shows the prevalence of the five dimensions of excessive internet use among European children. Its relation to other psychosocial variables, such as self-efficacy, peer problems and other kinds of risky behaviour offline and online such as cyberbullying and meeting strangers online, are also analysed.
Keywords: Excessive internet use, Internet addiction, Online addiction, Problematic internet use
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- Title Pages
- List of tables and figures
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on contributors
- One Theoretical framework for children's internet use
- Two Methodological framework: the EU Kids Online project
- Three Cognitive interviewing and responses to EU Kids Online survey questions
- Four Which children are fully online?
- Five Varieties of access and use
- Six Online opportunities
- Seven Digital skills in the context of media literacy
- Eight Between public and private: privacy in social networking sites
- Nine Experimenting with the self online: a risky opportunity
- Ten Young Europeans' Online environments: a typology of user practices
- Eleven Bullying
- Twelve ‘Sexting’: the exchange of sexual messages online among European youth
- Thirteen Pornography
- Fourteen Meeting new contacts online
- Fifteen Excessive internet use among European children
- Sixteen Coping and resilience: children's responses to online risks
- Seventeen Agents of mediation and sources of safety awareness: a comparative overview
- Eighteen The effectiveness of parental mediation
- Nineteen Effectiveness of teachers' and peers' mediation in supporting opportunities and reducing risks online
- Twenty Understanding digital inequality: the interplay between parental socialisation and children's development
- Twenty-one Similarities and differences across Europe
- Twenty-Two Mobile access: different users, different risks, different consequences?
- Twenty-Three Explaining vulnerability to risk and harm
- Twenty-Four Relating online practices, negative experiences and coping strategies
- Twenty-five Towards a general model of determinants of risk and safety
- Twenty-Six Policy implications and recommendations: now what?
- Appendix: Key variables used in EU Kids Online analyses
- References
- Index