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Problematic Internet Usage and the Meaning-Based Regulation of Activity Among Adolescents

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Digital Transformation and Global Society (DTGS 2018)

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This paper explores the relationship between problematic internet usage and the meaning-based regulation of activity among adolescents. Participants were 77 adolescents (36 males, 41 females; M = 15.16 years, SD = 1.1) in grades 9–10 of two secondary schools predominantly for middle and lower-middle socioeconomic-status families in St. Petersburg (Russian Federation). Personal meaning-based regulation of adolescents’ activity can be defined as a structure connected with various aspects of the adolescents’ inner world and behavior. The data obtained make it possible to identify the personality-meaning-based preconditions for PIU in adolescence: difficulties in modelling the conditions for activity and programming behavior to achieve goals; a pronounced tendency to independent activity; a high level of susceptibility to psychological problems. The findings revealed that PIU may combine with a tendency to frequent usage of various electronic devices and a desire to acquire expensive technical novelties. The results given may be use in the development of psychological prophylaxis and correction of PIU in adolescence.

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    I. M. Bogdanovskaya, N. N. Koroleva, A. N. Alekhin & V. F. Lugovaya

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Khodakovskaia, O.V., Bogdanovskaya, I.M., Koroleva, N.N., Alekhin, A.N., Lugovaya, V.F. (2018). Problematic Internet Usage and the Meaning-Based Regulation of Activity Among Adolescents. In: Alexandrov, D., Boukhanovsky, A., Chugunov, A., Kabanov, Y., Koltsova, O. (eds) Digital Transformation and Global Society. DTGS 2018. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 859. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02846-6_18

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