A Study On Medical Students' Internet Addiction Disorder And Their Personalities And Parental Rearing Styles

Objective: To investigate on-line behaviors of medical students with IAD. To investigate mental health, personality and parental rearing styles of medical students with IAD. To study that parental rearing styles of medical students with IAD are related to their mental health and personality. Method: Medical students in grade 1 to 4 from ChongQing Medical University were assessed with SCL-90, 16PF, EMBU, Internet Addiction Disorder test and self-made survey questionnaire of on-line medical students from March to June in 2006. Results: 6.49% subjects can be defined as IAD according to Internet Addiction Disorder test. There were significant difference between IAD group and non-IAD group in sex, on-line sites, goals and father's education. The results of SCL-90 demonstrated that IAD group has higher scores in somatization, obsessive-compulsive, interpersonal sensitivity, depression, anxiety, hostility, photic anxiety, paranoid ideation, psychoticism and additional items than non-IAD group. The results of 16PF demonstrated that there were significant difference between two groups in C, G, H, L, O, L, Q3, Q4, x1, x2, y1, y2, y4. The results of EMBU demonstrated that IAD group got more punishment, negation and less care or understanding than non-IAD group. Parental rearing styles of medical students with IAD are related to their mental health, personality. Conclusion: Some medical students can be defined as IAD. IAD group and non-IAD group have great differences in on-line behaviors. Medical students with IAD have bad mental health and personality, got more punishment, negation and less care or understanding than non-IAD. Negative parental rearing styles of medical students with IAD have bad effects on the development of normal mentality and the formation of health personality.