作者
Hong Cai, Wei Bai, Sha Sha, Ling Zhang, Ines HI Chow, Si-Man Lei, Grace KI Lok, Teris Cheung, Zhaohui Su, Brian J Hall, Robert D Smith, Yu-Tao Xiang
发表日期
2022/4/1
期刊
Journal of affective disorders
卷号
302
页码范围
415-423
出版商
Elsevier
简介
Background
Internet addiction (IA) and depression are common among adolescents and often are co-occurring. This study examined the network structures of IA and depressive symptoms (depression hereafter) in adolescents.
Methods
A total of 1,009 adolescents were recruited. IA and depression were measured using the Internet Addiction Test (IAT) and the 9 items-Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9), respectively. A network analysis was conducted to identify central symptoms and bridge symptoms using centrality indices. Network stability was evaluated using the case-dropping procedure. The Network Comparison Test (NCT) was conducted to examine whether network characteristics differed by gender.
Results
Network analysis revealed that nodes IAT-15 (“Preoccupation with the Internet”), IAT-2 (“Neglect chores to spend more time online”), PHQ-6 (“Guilty”), and IAT-16 (“Request an extension for longer time …
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