Paper Info
Title
Internet-based intervention for the treatment of online addiction for college students in China: a pilot study of the Healthy Online Self-helping Center.
Abstract
Internet addiction among college students has become a serious problem in China. This pilot study involved the development of an online expert system named Healthy Online Self-helping Center (HOSC) as an intervention tool to help those who wish to reduce online usage. The study also explored the effectiveness of HOSC for college students' Internet addiction behavior. Participants (N 65) were recruited from a university in Beijing, and were randomly assigned to one of four conditions: using HOSC within a laboratory environment, using HOSC within a natural environment, using a noninteractive program, and a control group. All the participants were asked to answer questionnaires at the baseline and at the 1-month follow-up. The questionnaires included the participants' online hours per week, the legitimate ratio of Internet usage, online satisfaction, and the Young's Diagnostic Questionnaire. The results revealed that HOSC under both natural and laboratory environments could effectively reduce the participants' online hours per week as well as their Young's Diagnostic Questionnaire score, and improve online satisfaction at a 1-month follow-up. Participants using a noninteractive program also had similar results. The article concludes with a discussion of the limitations of the study, as well as the implications of the findings and future research directions.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1089/cyber.2010.0167
CYBERPSYCHOLOGY BEHAVIOR AND SOCIAL NETWORKING
Field
DocType
Volume
Addiction,China,Psychology,Multimedia,Beijing,The Internet
Journal
14.0
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
9
2152-2715
4
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.46
6
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Wenliang Su151.50
Xiaoyi Fang292.97
John K Miller340.46
Yiyuan Wang441.47