Adição à internet e caraterísticas de personalidade: Um estudo com estudantes universitários portugueses
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O uso problemático da internet principalmente pelos jovens constitui uma preocupação atual, no sentido de averiguar a prevalência do uso aditivo, assim como a possível associação com as diferenças individuais. Este estudo pretende conhecer a relação entre a adição à internet e as caraterísticas de personalidade, contempladas no modelo de cinco fatores. Pretendeu-se também analisar a relação entre as variáveis sociodemográficas, designadamente sexo e idade, e a adição à internet. Participaram na investigação 1050 estudantes universitários de diferentes cursos, entre os 17 e os 35 anos, sendo 633 do sexo feminino e 417 do sexo masculino, aos quais foi aplicado um questionário composto por questões sociodemográficas, o Internet Addiction Test (IAT), de Young (1998), validado para a população portuguesa por Pontes et al. (2014), e a versão portuguesa do NEO-Five-Factor Inventory (NEO-FFI) (Magalhães et al., 2014). As principais conclusões apontam que os indivíduos mais neuróticos, mais extrovertidos, menos amáveis e menos conscienciosos revelam um grau de adição à internet mais elevado. Observou-se ainda que os indivíduos mais jovens e do sexo masculino são tendencialmente mais adictos à internet. São discutidas as implicações práticas da investigação, limitações e propostas para estudos futuros.
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- Monteiro, A. P., Sousa, M., & Correia, E.
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- Revista Portuguesa de Educação
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- University of Minho
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- 2020-12-30
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- 2183-0452
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- 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 › Personality Traits and Psychology
- Keywords
- internet addiction, personality traits, Big Five personality model, neuroticism, extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, sociodemographic factors, sex differences, age differences, university students, problematic internet use
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