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La adicción a Internet y al móvil. ¿Moda o trastorno?

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Sánchez-Carbonell, Xavier, Beranuy, Marta, Castellana, Montserrat, Chamarro, Ander, Oberst, Ursula·2008·Adicciones
DOI 10.20882/adicciones.279
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Las Tecnologías de la Información y la Comunicación (TIC) provocan nuevos estilos para trabar conocimiento con personas nuevas o para relacionarse con amigos o desconocidos. En este contexto, Internet y el teléfono móvil merecen una atención especial. En este artículo se pretende determinar, mediante una revisión de la literatura científica publicada entre 1991 y 2005 e indexada en las bases de datos PsycINFO, Medline, Psicodoc, IME e ISOC, si el uso desadaptativo de las TIC se puede considerar un trastorno mental y en caso afirmativo, de qué tipo. Se describen los síntomas del uso desadaptativo a Internet y al móvil, encontrados en estas investigaciones, se revisan los estudios sobre prevalencia y grupos de riesgo, y se comentan algunas de las críticas hechas respecto de la existencia y clasificación de este cuadro. Se concluye que el uso excesivo de Internet representa un trastorno mental de tipo adictivo que puede afectar sobre todo a personas con necesidades emocionales especiales y a jóvenes y adolescentes. Entre las aplicaciones específicas de Internet, la posibilidad de adicción se centra en el uso de aplicaciones comunicativas y sincrónicas como chats y juegos de rol en línea porque permiten la comunicación hiperpersonal, el juego de identidades, las proyecciones y la disociación sin consecuencias en la vida real. Además, Internet podría jugar un papel importante en el desarrollo y mantenimiento de otras adicciones como el juego patológico y la adicción al sexo. A diferencia de Internet, el uso desadaptativo del móvil puede llegar a ser un abuso, pero no una adicción, porque no se producen ni las alteraciones emocionales rápidas ni el juego de identidades que pueden producirse en chats y juegos de rol en línea.

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  • Total time spent on cell phones decreases with age, with the highest times reported for people less than 20 years old, principally adolescents approximately 14 years old.

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Authors
Sánchez-Carbonell, X., Beranuy, M., Castellana, M., Chamarro, A., & Oberst, U.
ORCID
Venue
Adicciones
Publisher
Socidrogalcohol
Published
2008-06-01
Volume
20
Issue
2
Pages
149-160
ISSN
0214-4840 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.20882/adicciones.279
OpenAlex
W1845959773
Cited by
146
References
53
Citations by year
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FWCI
18.52
Type
journal article
Language
es
Open access
Locations
  • Adicciones (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) (submittedVersion, public-domain)
  • LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas) (submittedVersion, public-domain)
  • Redalyc (Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México) (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Impact of Technology on Adolescents
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Gambling Behavior and Treatments
Keywords
internet addiction, mobile phone addiction, mental illness, prevalence, risk groups, adolescents, young adults, online role-playing games, online chat, hyperpersonal communication, gambling addiction, sexual addiction, dissociation, identity play
MeSH terms
Humans, Risk Factors, Prevalence, Behavior, Addictive, Internet, Cell Phone

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