Psychopathological symptoms in individuals at risk of Internet addiction in the context of selected demographic factors.
CONCLUSIONS: Individuals at risk of Internet addiction were found to be characterized by a significantly higher severity of obsessive-compulsive, conversion, anxiety, and depressive symptoms. Persons at risk of Internet addiction who lived in rural areas had significantly more severe psychopathological symptoms, mainly obsessive-compulsive, hypochondriac and phobic, compared to their urban peers.
PMID: 30922026 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine : AAEM - Category: Environmental Health Authors: Potembska E, Pawłowska B, Szymańska J Tags: Ann Agric Environ Med Source Type: research
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