Poli Roberto, Agrimi Emilia
Department of Mental Health, Psychiatric Unit of Cremona General Hospital, Azienda Ospedaliera di Cremona Viale Concordia 1, 26100 Cremona, Italy.
Nord J Psychiatry. 2012 Feb;66(1):55-9. doi: 10.3109/08039488.2011.605169. Epub 2011 Aug 23.
Internet addiction is one of the latest forms of addiction that has attracted the attention of popular media and researchers in these last few years. Several authors think Internet addiction is a separate disorder that merits inclusion in DSM-V. There is considerable controversy about this opinion.
The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence of Internet addiction in a representative sample of high school students attending secondary institutions in the district of Cremona and to assess any difference concerning variables such as gender, age, place of residence and kind of school attended.
The Italian version of the Internet Addiction Test (IAT) has been administered to a sample of 2533 students from different kinds of school. The survey also required social and demographic data.
The majority of respondents were classified as normal users of the Internet (n = 2386, 94.19%), with 127 (5.01%) moderately addicted and 20 (0.79%) seriously addicted. Significant differences in gender and in kinds of school were found. No statistical differences were revealed in age and urban or rural conditions.
Our study has confirmed the general use of the Internet among youngest people, the emergence of Internet addiction and the male preponderance of this phenomenon.
网络成瘾是近年来吸引了大众媒体和研究人员关注的最新成瘾形式之一。一些作者认为网络成瘾是一种独立的疾病，值得纳入《精神疾病诊断与统计手册》第五版（DSM-V）。关于这一观点存在相当大的争议。
本研究的目的是评估克雷莫纳地区中学就读的高中生代表性样本中的网络成瘾患病率，并评估在性别、年龄、居住地点和就读学校类型等变量方面的任何差异。
已对来自不同类型学校的2533名学生样本进行了意大利语版的网络成瘾测试（IAT）。该调查还需要社会和人口统计学数据。
大多数受访者被归类为互联网正常用户（n = 2386，94.19%），127人（5.01%）中度成瘾，20人（0.79%）重度成瘾。发现性别和学校类型存在显著差异。年龄以及城市或农村条件方面未发现统计学差异。
我们的研究证实了年轻人对互联网的普遍使用、网络成瘾的出现以及这一现象中男性占主导地位。
