Objective In recent years scientific interest in Internet use disorders, especially among young
people, has grown dramatically. Within this contemporary research field, difficulties in …

Highlights•The number of Problematic Internet use (PIU) studies is steadily increasing.•This
study is one of the most up-to-date literature reviews on PIU.•Despite abundant publications …

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak has significantly disrupted normal
activities globally. During this epidemic, people around the world were expected to …

Background and aims The present longitudinal study examined the changes in problematic
internet use (problematic smartphone use, problematic social media use, and problematic …

This study assessed the mediating roles of problematic gaming, problematic social media
use, and problematic smartphone use in the associations between psychological distress …

A family environment, characterized by low expressiveness, low cohesion and intense
conflicts is usually associated with problematic internet use (PIU) among adolescents …

This study examined the relationship between Excessive Internet Use (EIU) in adolescents
and their family environment, namely the family type, the family economic status, the effect of …

This cross-sectional study explored the impact of stress, social anxiety, and social class on
Internet addiction among adolescents. The subjects—1,634 middle school students—were …

Prior studies have identified some risk factors for problematic smartphone use. However,
little research has examined the potential influence of emotion regulation difficulty on …

Increasingly widespread use of Internet resources has facilitated the emergence of
problematic Internet use (PIU) in adolescence developmental process, where significant …