Internet Addiction in the Aspect of Information Technology

¹Associate Professor Far Eastern Federal University, Vladivostok, Russky Island, Russia

²senior lecturer Far Eastern Federal University, Vladivostok, Russky Island, Russia.

³senior Lecturer Far Eastern Federal University, Vladivostok, Russky Island, Russia.

⁴senior student Far Eastern Federal University, Vladivostok, Russky Island, Russia.

⁵senior student Far Eastern Federal University, Vladivostok, Russky Island, Russia.

Corresponding Author: Sergey Fadyushin, Associate Professor Far Eastern Federal University, Vladivostok, Russky Island, Russia, Tel: +7423245-76-87; 
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Received Date: 31 Jan 2018   
Accepted Date: 05 Feb 2018   
Published Date: 07 Feb 2018   
Copyright: © 2018 Fadyushin SCitation: Fadyushin S, Vereshchagina E, Tsyganova G, Tikhonovsky G, et al. (2018). Internet Addiction in the Aspect of Information Technology. Mathews J Psychiatry Ment Health. 3(1): 018.

ABSTRACT

The progress of information technology is undoubtedly useful, but it brings a number of threats to man and society. One of them, called Internet dependence or Internet addiction, is intensively discussed in the field of information technology and in psychological sciences. Internet addiction is not yet a universally recognized factor of human addictive behavior. But almost all researchers note the increasing power of the negative impact of this phenomenon on the mental state of Internet users. The purpose of the study, the results of which are described in this paper, is to theoretically substantiate the diagnostic criterion of Internet-dependent human behavior in the aspect of information technology. The main research tool is the method of estimating the meaningfulness of search queries in the Internet, developed on the basis of probability theory and mathematical statistics. The study was conducted on the example of a group of senior university students. The content of this paper relates to the field of interdisciplinary scientific research, which lies at the intersection of information theory and psychology of the Internet (cyber-psychology). The paper is of a scholarly and researching nature and represents a topic for a broad discussion on the Internet addiction. The main result of the study is a diagnostic criterion for assessing Internet addiction in the aspect of information technology, enabling to identify the patient's "general" personality disorder based on statistical analysis of the meaningfulness of search queries on the Internet. The results obtained can be of theoretical and practical value for specialists in Internet psychology, psychiatrists, artificial intelligence developers, Internet-dependent people and anyone who cares about their fate.

KEYWORDS

Internet Addiction; Information; Entropy; Addiction; the Internet.