Mladi i ovisnost o internetu – pregled suvremenih spoznaja

• Published in: Hrvatska revija za rehabilitacijska istraživanja 2018-07, Vol.54 (1), p.123-137
• Main Authors: Dodig Hundrić, Dora, Ricijaš, Neven, Vlček, Monika
• Format: Article
• Language: hrv ; eng
• Subjects: Behaviorism; behavioural addiction; children and young people; djeca i mladi; ICT Information and Communications Technologies; Internet addiction; ovisnost o internetu; ponašajna ovisnost; Substance abuse and addiction
• ISSN: 1331-3010; 1848-7734
• DOI: 10.31299/hrri.54.1.9

The Internet is indispensable in the daily life of modern man. However, recent studies support the idea that part of the population is developing problems associated with excessive use of the Internet. As with other behavioural problems, children and young people are at particular risk. Internet addiction, though still not a separate diagnostic category, conceptually belongs to behavioural addictions. Knowledge of this complex phenomenon is extremely important to professionals who work with children and youth. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to provide a systematic and concise review of Croatian and international professional and scientific literature. In this paper, the authors focus on terminological issues and definitions, prevalence assessment as well as the phenomenology and aetiology of Internet addiction. Contemporary knowledge, predominantly from outside Croatia, is interpreted in the context of scientific research and with the purpose of creating prevention and treatment interventions for youth from the general population and for youth who have already developed problems associated with excessive use of the Internet.