Research On The Definition, Characteristics And Prevention Of Adolesents' Internet Addiction

The rapid development of internet technology brings greater effect on human's mind and behaviors. Because of indulging in or even addicting themselves to this kind of dummy world, some adolescents risk their health. As the population stuck on the internet grows, it turns out to be an urgent social problem to help the adolescents to gain only benefits from internet but harm.The present studies try to explore how to define, understand and take steps to prevent adolescents from addicting to internet in the terms of psychology. A clear and valid definition of internet addiction could provide us a kind of scientific and valid instrument to assess the indulging adolescents; making clear the relationship between addicts and implicit aggressiveness could clarify the impact of internet addiction to the development of adolescents' body and mind; at the same time, the study of positive psychological traits may reveal new approaches and ways to protect adolescents against internet addiction.The effectiveness of prediction, diagnosis, intervention and treatment of internet addiction is determined directly by the accuracy and validity of its' evaluation. As we know, psychometrics involves two kinds of tests: norm-referenced tests and criterion-referenced tests. Norm-referenced tests compare individual student's performance to that of the same population; criterion-referenced tests report how well students are doing relative to a pre-determined performance level on a specified set. In the norm-referent tests, standard sample is necessary, but it's difficult for us to find standard samples in the internet addiction and game addiction group, because internetaddiction is very different from common addictions. Accordingly, we adopt the standard set of internet addiction and game addiction that derives from Angoff's method.At last, we get a definition scale of internet addiction, which consists of 12 items. The score of criterion is 8.In other words, if one answers "yes" for more than 8 times in the 12 items, we can say he has an addicting for internet. While the definition scale of internet game scale consists of 10 items, and its' criterion is 7. If the subject answers "yes" for more than 7 times in the 10 items, we can decide that the adolescent has addiction for internet game.The content of online computer game the addict played was aggressive, The research has been done on the impact of violent online game on the addict's aggression-relevant self schema, perception and judgment game addict made on the other's behavior, even the personality of game addict.The research of implicit aggressiveness of game addict was the paradigm change of aggression research, there is urgent to. first, we want to explore the new research tools to study the implicit aggressiveness of online computer game addict; on the other hand, in my opinion, developing the efficient intervene strategies and proposal for game addict must be based on the valid theory.The research showed that the exposure chronically to the scenes of virtual violence has long-term effect on addict's self-concept. In my study, game addict associated self with aggressive traits and actions on the IAT, showed more positive evaluation to aggressive traits and actions than non-addict. These means the exposure chronically to the scenes of virtual violence can tighten cognitive association between the self and aggression. The reason may be that the repeated pairing of self and aggression related concepts classically conditions new or stronger associations between them. Another possibility is that exposure to violent games chronically can form aggressive self-representations, consisting of the automatic link in a person'smind between the self and aggressive traits and actions. Such automatic associations may be central to how we process information about addicts and their social world.In the third section, we explored the preventing effect of positive characteristics on internet addiction by questionnaires research and longitudinal study. Studies reveal that individuals with negative emotion a...