Craving Facebook? Behavioral addiction to online social networking and its association with emotion regulation deficits

Aims To assess disordered online social networking use via modified diagnostic criteria for substance dependence, and to examine its association with difficulties with emotion regulation and substance use. Design Cross‐sectional survey study targeting undergraduate students. Associations between dis...

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Published in:	Addiction (Abingdon, England) England), 2014-12, Vol.109 (12), p.2079-2088
Main Authors:	Hormes, Julia M., Kearns, Brianna, Timko, C. Alix
Format:	Article
Language:	eng
Subjects:	Addiction Addictions Addictive behaviors Adolescent Adult and adolescent clinical studies alcohol Alcohol Abuse Alcohol use Alcoholism Behavior, Addictive - epidemiology Behavior, Addictive - psychology behavioral addiction Biological and medical sciences Comorbidity Confidence intervals Craving Cross-Sectional Studies diagnosis disordered online social networking use Drug addiction emotion regulation Emotional Adjustment Emotions Facebook Female Humans Internet internet addiction Male Medical sciences Miscellaneous New England non-substance addiction online social networking Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry Psychopathology. Psychiatry Social Media Social Networks Students - psychology Students - statistics & numerical data Substance Abuse Substance use Substance-Related Disorders - psychology Surveys U.S.A Undergraduate Students Whites Young Adult Youth
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Summary:	Aims To assess disordered online social networking use via modified diagnostic criteria for substance dependence, and to examine its association with difficulties with emotion regulation and substance use. Design Cross‐sectional survey study targeting undergraduate students. Associations between disordered online social networking use, internet addiction, deficits in emotion regulation and alcohol use problems were examined using univariate and multivariate analyses of covariance. Setting A large University in the Northeastern United States. Participants Undergraduate students (n = 253, 62.8% female, 60.9% white, age mean= 19.68, standard deviation = 2.85), largely representative of the target population. The response rate was 100%. Measurements Disordered online social networking use, determined via modified measures of alcohol abuse and dependence, including DSM‐IV‐TR diagnostic criteria for alcohol dependence, the Penn Alcohol Craving Scale and the Cut‐down, Annoyed, Guilt, Eye‐opener (CAGE) screen, along with the Young Internet Addiction Test, Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test, Acceptance and Action Questionnaire‐II, White Bear Suppression Inventory and Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale. Findings Disordered online social networking use was present in 9.7% [n = 23; 95% confidence interval (5.9, 13.4)] of the sample surveyed, and significantly and positively associated with scores on the Young Internet Addiction Test (P
ISSN:	0965-2140 1360-0443