Processes discriminating adaptive and maladaptive Internet use among European adolescents highly engaged online
ABSTRACT Today adolescents are highly engaged online. Contrary to common concern, not all highly engaged adolescents develop maladaptive patterns of internet use. The present qualitative study explored the experiences, patterns and impact of use of 124 adolescents ( M age = 16.0) reporting signs of...
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crwiley:10.1016/j.adolescence.2014.12.003 2024-09-15T18:13:59+00:00 Processes discriminating adaptive and maladaptive Internet use among European adolescents highly engaged online Tzavela, Eleni C. Karakitsou, Chryssoula Dreier, Michael Mavromati, Foteini Wölfling, Klaus Halapi, Eva Macarie, George Wójcik, Szymon Veldhuis, Lydian Tsitsika, Artemis K. 2015 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.adolescence.2014.12.003 https://api.elsevier.com/content/article/PII:S0140197114002085?httpAccept=text/xml https://api.elsevier.com/content/article/PII:S0140197114002085?httpAccept=text/plain https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1016/j.adolescence.2014.12.003 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full-xml/10.1016/j.adolescence.2014.12.003 en eng Wiley http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/termsAndConditions#vor https://www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ Journal of Adolescence volume 40, issue 1, page 34-47 ISSN 0140-1971 1095-9254 journal-article 2015 crwiley https://doi.org/10.1016/j.adolescence.2014.12.003 2024-09-05T05:10:08Z ABSTRACT Today adolescents are highly engaged online. Contrary to common concern, not all highly engaged adolescents develop maladaptive patterns of internet use. The present qualitative study explored the experiences, patterns and impact of use of 124 adolescents ( M age = 16.0) reporting signs of internet addictive behaviors. The focus was to discern adaptive and maladaptive use patterns, which promote or interfere with adolescents' development, respectively. Semi‐structured individual interviews were conducted in seven European countries (Greece, Spain, Poland, Germany, Romania, Netherlands and Iceland) and qualitatively analyzed using grounded theory. Considerable variability emerged in the way adolescents satisfied their personal needs online and offline, in the experienced impact from high online engagement and functional value ascribed to the internet, and in the self‐regulatory processes underlying use. Variability in these discriminating processes was linked to adaptive or maladaptive adolescent internet use patterns. The emerged processes can provide direction for designing prevention and intervention programs promoting adaptive use. Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland Wiley Online Library Journal of Adolescence 40 1 34 47 |
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ABSTRACT Today adolescents are highly engaged online. Contrary to common concern, not all highly engaged adolescents develop maladaptive patterns of internet use. The present qualitative study explored the experiences, patterns and impact of use of 124 adolescents ( M age = 16.0) reporting signs of internet addictive behaviors. The focus was to discern adaptive and maladaptive use patterns, which promote or interfere with adolescents' development, respectively. Semi‐structured individual interviews were conducted in seven European countries (Greece, Spain, Poland, Germany, Romania, Netherlands and Iceland) and qualitatively analyzed using grounded theory. Considerable variability emerged in the way adolescents satisfied their personal needs online and offline, in the experienced impact from high online engagement and functional value ascribed to the internet, and in the self‐regulatory processes underlying use. Variability in these discriminating processes was linked to adaptive or maladaptive adolescent internet use patterns. The emerged processes can provide direction for designing prevention and intervention programs promoting adaptive use. |
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Tzavela, Eleni C. Karakitsou, Chryssoula Dreier, Michael Mavromati, Foteini Wölfling, Klaus Halapi, Eva Macarie, George Wójcik, Szymon Veldhuis, Lydian Tsitsika, Artemis K. |
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Tzavela, Eleni C. Karakitsou, Chryssoula Dreier, Michael Mavromati, Foteini Wölfling, Klaus Halapi, Eva Macarie, George Wójcik, Szymon Veldhuis, Lydian Tsitsika, Artemis K. Processes discriminating adaptive and maladaptive Internet use among European adolescents highly engaged online |
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Tzavela, Eleni C. Karakitsou, Chryssoula Dreier, Michael Mavromati, Foteini Wölfling, Klaus Halapi, Eva Macarie, George Wójcik, Szymon Veldhuis, Lydian Tsitsika, Artemis K. |
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Processes discriminating adaptive and maladaptive Internet use among European adolescents highly engaged online |
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Processes discriminating adaptive and maladaptive Internet use among European adolescents highly engaged online |
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Processes discriminating adaptive and maladaptive Internet use among European adolescents highly engaged online |
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Processes discriminating adaptive and maladaptive Internet use among European adolescents highly engaged online |
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Processes discriminating adaptive and maladaptive Internet use among European adolescents highly engaged online |
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