Annotated Bibliography

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Online Social Support with Interned Addiction and Procrastination. Pakistan Journal Of

Psychological Research, 31(1), 93-117.

This journal of research refers to the use of internet by young generations and how is

negatively interfering with academic, psychological and social functioning.

Bach Xuan, T., Le Thi, H., Nguyen Duc, H., Long Hoang, N., Bao Nguyen, L., Vuong Minh, N.,

& ... Zhang, M. W. (2017). A study on the influence of internet addiction and online

interpersonal influences on health-related quality of life in young Vietnamese. BMC

Public Health, 17(1), 1-8.

This journal article offers information and data about the investigation of how the

excessive use of internet has had a negative impact on users health, and how internet

usage can be viewed as an addictive behavior.

Carlisle, K. L., Carlisle, R. M., Polychronopoulos, G. B., Goodman-Scott, E., & Kirk-Jenkins, A.

(2016). Exploring Internet Addiction as a Process Addiction. Journal Of Mental Health

Counseling, 38(2), 170-182.

This article explores how internet addiction is emerged as a global concern because of the

constant increase of Internet Usage over the past decade, and coming to define IA as an

emerging disorder.
Khan, M. A., Shabbir, F., & Rajput, T. A. (2017). Effect of Gender and Physical Activity on

Internet Addiction in Medical Students. Pakistan Journal Of Medical Sciences, 33(1),

191-194.

This article offers information about the usage and abuse on internet, but focusing on

medical students to conclude that internet addiction is unrelated to gender however it is

inversely relate with physical activity. Physical activity may help to drop on peoples

internet addiction level.

Prabhakaran, M. A., Patel, V. R., Ganjiwale, D. J., & Nimbalkar, M. S. (2016). Factors associated

with internet addiction among school-going adolescents in Vadodara. Journal Of Family

Medicine & Primary Care, 5(4), 765-969.

The article offers reliable information and facts about internet usage level in adolescents,

by giving percentages and data recovered by surveys, to conclude that internet addiction

is soon likely to emerge as a global health issue.

Seungsin, l., jungkun, p., & lee, s. B. (2016). The interplay of internet addiction and compulsive

shopping behaviors.

This report provides several tested hypothesis to an investigation about the relationship

between internet addiction and compulsive shopping in offline versus online settings, the

internet influence on shopping behaviors.

Younes, F., Halawi, G., Jabbour, H., El Osta, N., Karam, L., Hajj, A., & Rabbaa Khabbaz, L.

(2016). Internet Addiction and Relationships with Insomnia, Anxiety, Depression, Stress

and Self-Esteem in University Students: A Cross-Sectional Designed Study. Plos ONE,

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 This article offers full information and data about the investigation of the influence of

internet in several health issues, being in this case, insomnia, low self-steem anxiety and

depression, to conclude that internet addiction is highly associated with these type of

health problems.

Wu, C., Lee, M., Liao, S., & Chang, L. (2015). Risk Factors of Internet Addiction among

Internet Users: An Online Questionnaire Survey. Plos ONE, 10(10), 1-10.

This article provides information on how IA is now a major public health issue and has

come to increase the number of suicides and psychiatric disorders, to conclude that

people with internet addiction may have higher rates of psychiatric morbidity and suicide

risk.