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Internet Addiction: A Self-Evaluation Test

Internet Addiction: A Self-Evaluation

Some writers now are suggesting that internet addiction can be just the tip of the iceberg. Recent research shows that internet addiction is just a special case of what some have suggested might more broadly be called communication addiction. Most healthy individuals tend to spend their time engaged in a number of productive activities such as eating, sleeping, working, caring for their children and having sex.

But recently, some persons, especially young people, have begun to devote an inordinate amount of time to the often far less valuable and more problemmatic overemphasis upon the more general activity of communication (and a related behavior, information gathering). Not only can this distract them from other activities, but extended bouts of overemphasized communication are often accompanied by other unhealthy behaviors, such as consumption of intoxicants and sometimes excessive quantities of food.

They have often been known to express regret over the amount of time that this increasing problem begins to take away from much more vital activities (such as sleep), and over other kinds of behaviors, such as possibly unsafe sexual activity, that such communication may have indirectly engendered.

How do you know if you're already addicted or rapidly tumbling toward trouble? The Internet Addiction Test is the first validated and reliable measure of addictive use of the Internet. Developed by Dr. Kimberly Young, the IAT is a 20-item questionnaire that measures mild, moderate, and severe levels of internet addiction. If you happen to be somewhat curious about the degree of your own internet involvement, the level of your internet activity can be measured by taking this brief self-evaluation test.

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