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The Relationship between Recent Stressful Life Events, Personality Traits, Perceived Family Functioning and Internet Addiction among College Students
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Internet addiction (IA) is an emerging social and mental health issue among youths. Analysis of risk factors, as well as their interactions, is crucial for understanding the development of IA. This study investigated the relationship between recent stressful life events, personality traits, perceived family functioning and IA in 892 college students. Subjects were classified into categories (non-addicted, mild IA or severe IA) using the Chen Internet Addiction Scale. Stressful life events, personality traits and family functioning were assessed using the Adolescent Self-Rating Life Events Checklist, the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire, and the Family Adaptability and Cohesion Scale, respectively. The results indicated that compared with non-addicted subjects, subjects with severe IA (9.98%) had lower family functioning, lower extraversion, higher neuroticism and psychoticism, and more stressful life events, and subjects with mild IA (11.21%) had higher neuroticism and more health and adaptation problems. Neuroticism and health and adaptation problems were potential predictors of IA. An interaction effect between psychoticism and total life stress on IA was also found. These findings highlight the role of personality traits and life stress and their interactions in college students' IA. Further research should explore the mechanisms underlying the interaction effect of psychoticism with life stress on IA.
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- Authors
- Yan, W., Li, Y., & Sui, N.
- Affiliations
- Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Institute of Psychology Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing China
- Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN)
- Corresponding author
- Sui, Nan
- ORCID
- Venue
- Stress and Health
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2013-04-25
- Volume
- 30
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 3-11
- ISSN
- 1532-2998 (ISSN-L)
- 1532-3005
- OpenAlex
- W1567030315
- Cited by
- 230
- References
- 48
- Citations by year
- 2026: 6 · 2025: 10 · 2024: 13 · 2023: 23 · 2022: 28 · 2021: 15 · 2020: 24 · 2019: 22 · 2018: 30 · 2017: 16 · 2016: 18 · 2015: 14 · 2014: 9 · 2013: 2
- FWCI
- 44.39
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Stress and Health (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Institutional Repository of Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- National Science Foundation
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
- National Key Research and Development Program of China (2009CB522002)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Impact of Technology on Adolescents
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
- Keywords
- internet addiction, life events, personality traits, perceived family functioning, university students, neuroticism, psychoticism, extraversion, family functioning, risk factors, interaction effects, Chen Internet Addiction Scale
- MeSH terms
- Adaptation, Psychological, Adolescent, Adult, China, Epidemiologic Methods, Family Relations, Female, Humans, Life Change Events, Male, Personality, Personality Assessment, Severity of Illness Index, Students, Universities, Behavior, Addictive, Internet, Young Adult
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