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Stavropoulos, Vassilis

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PSYCHOPATHOLOGY, QUALITY OF ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS AND PERSONALITY AS PREDICTORS OF INTERNET ADDICTION AMONG ADOLESCENT AVATAR PLAYERS ON THE INTERNETVassilis Stavropoulos& Frosso Motti - StefanidiThis research has been co-financed by the European Union (EuropeanSocial Fund – ESF) and Greek national funds through the OperationalProgram "Education and Lifelong Learning" of the National StrategicReference Framework (NSRF) - Research Funding Program: Heracleitus II.Investing in knowledge society through the European Social Fund.Impetus for this research project• MMORPGs are high risk internet applications for developing Internet Addiction Disorder• Participating in such a game has as prerequisite to be represented in the virtual world by an Avatar• An Avatar  is a virtual figure which functions as player’s idol in digital world • It is also said to be player’s virtual personality heplinghim to relate through his fantasy (Allison, 2006)Psychopathology: Depression and internet abuse Kim, Ryu, Chon, Yeun, Choi, Seo Nam, (2006)Stojakovic, (2011)Lee, Han, Yang,  Daniels, Na,  Kee, Renshaw, (2008)Personality: Conscientiousness and internet abuse Landers & Lounsbury(2006)L0Low Levels of Conscienti-oussess as PerosnalitytraitAttachment: Anxiety attachment and internet abuse Odacı & Kalkan (2010)HHighLevels of Dating, Communication & Unpopularity anxiety AnxietyResearch Questions1. Are Depression, Conscientiousness and  Anxiety Attachment Type in close relationships  predictive factors for Internet Addiction, among MMRPG/ Avatar players?2. Is there a model which may explains how these three factors connect resulting to Internet Addiction, among MMORPG/ Avatar players?Research Sample• N= 2090 Adolescents• Boys=1035 (49,7%)• Girls=1048 (50,3%)• Attica= 1919 (91,8%)• Korinthia= 171 (8,2%)• General High Schools= 1728 (82,7 %)• Technical High Schools=362 (17,3 %)• Mean Age= 16,16 First Choice Internet Applicationchatrooms MMORPGs OtherValid Percentchatrooms 12,9MMORPGs 13,0Blogs & Social Network19,3instant messengers15,0Net Pornography2,7Music & Movies Download16,9Information Searching13,2Other 6,9Total 100,0MMORPGs /Avatar Players or Not44,2% Avatar Players or 55,8% NotAvatarPlayersNotAvatarPlayersInstruments• Internet use was assessed with:• The Internet Addiction Test (Young, 1998) Cronbach a= 0,91 • Depression assessed with:• The Depression scale of the Symptom Check List – 90 (Derogatis,1994) Cronbach a= 0,80• Quality of romantic relationships was assessed with:• Anxiety Attachment Subscale of The Experiences in Close Relationships (Fraley et al., 2000) Cronbach a= 0,85• Personality Traits- Conscientiousness were assessed with:• Conscientiousness Subscale of the FFFK (Asendorpf, 1998) Cronbach a= 0,72Results• Question 1:Are Depression, Conscientiousness andAnxiety Attachment Type in close relationshipspredictive factors for Internet Addiction, amongMMRPG/ Avatar players?• In order to answer this question we performed amultiple linear regression analysis (Stepwise Method)• All Collinearity Diagnostic Criteria were withinpermitable for the analysis limits (VIF < 2, Tolerance >0,5, Condition Index < 15)Results• The analysis findings supported our initial hypotheses.• Multiple Correlation Index was R = 0,42• Regression Coefficient was R2 = 0,18• Adjusted Regression Coefficient was R2 = 0,17• The slope of the regression line wassignificantly different from zero {F (3, 586) =41,96, p = 0,0000.}ResultsPredictors Β SE Beta pDepression5.70 0.96 0.250.000Conscientiousness-0.54 0.12 0.180.000Anxiety Attachment 3.18 0.71 0.19 0.000Results• Question 2: Is there a model which may explainshow these three factors connect resulting toInternet Addiction, among MMORPG/ Avatarplayers?• We examined anxiety attachment and depressivebehavior, as proposed mediators of the effect ofconscientiousness on Internet Addiction .• For this purpose we calculated the Sobel test for the totaland specific indirect effects as well as percentile-based,bias-corrected, and bias-corrected and acceleratedbootstrap confidence intervals for the indirect effects asproposed by Preacher and Hayes at 2008 *.Results seem to support our hypotheses, only through anxiety attachment in close relationships… Table 1Mediation of the Effect of Conscientiousness on Internet Addiction among Adolescent Avatar Players Through the Anxiety Attachment and  Deprssive BehaviorProduct of Coefficients BootstrappingPoint Estimate SE Z PPercentile 99% CI BC 99% CI BCa 99% CILower Upper Lower Upper Lower UpperIndirect EffectsAnxiety -0.05     0.03    -1.10   .05 -0.11    -0.01 -0.12    -0.01-0.12 -0.01Depression -0.05     0.03    -.1.43     .15 -.0.11     0.02 -.0.12     .0.02-0.11 0.02Total -0.10     0.05   -1.89     .05 .0.20   -0.01 - 0.20 -0.01-0.19 -0.01Note—BC, bias corrected; BCa, bias corrected and accelerated; 1,000 bootstrap samples.To put it in shapes…Internet Addiction DisorderAnxious TypeDepressivebehaviorL0Low Levels of Conscienti-oussessDiscussion• Adolescent Avatar Players with depression, low levels of conscientiousness and  anxious attachment type in their close relationships are at risk to develop Internet Addiction Disorder• Adolescent Avatar Players who have low levels of conscientiousness tend not to trust their close relationships, probably as an impact of their character they are not sentimentally invested• To calm their anxiety or insecurity they may relate through an Avatar• Low Conscientiousness does n’ t lead through depression to Internet Addiction  Thank you  

Psychopathology, quality of romantic relationships and personality as predictors of internet addiction among adolescent avatar players on the internet

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Psychopathology, quality of romantic relationships and personality as predictors of internet addiction among adolescent avatar players on the internet

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