Adição à Internet: uma análise de seu significado e de suas relações com a qualidade de vida

• Ano de defesa: 2011
• Autor(a) principal: Batista, José Roniere Morais
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal da Paraí­ba; BR; Psicologia Social; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Psicologia Social; UFPB
• Palavras-chave em Português: Adição à internet; Qualidade de vida; Internet; Internet addiction; Life quality; CIENCIAS HUMANAS::PSICOLOGIA
• Link de acesso: https://repositorio.ufpb.br/jspui/handle/tede/6886

The internet addition can be defined as the behaviors and cognitions associated with Internet use that result in negative consequences for personal and professional lives of their users. This project aimed to verify the meanings of Internet addiction to regular users, and to establish a correlation between the Internet addiction, the self-perception as a dependent, and the life quality of users. Thus, this research attempts to answer three questions: What are the meanings attributed to the Internet addiction? Users considered dependent perceive themselves in such a way? And finally, will this addiction affect the life quality of individuals considered dependents? To meet the goals set in this research, was used the following method: Sample participated of the study 691 internet users who access often less than 1 hour per day, and use the internet for at least one year. The average age was 26.18 years old (SD = 8.67), the average income was R $ 4,247.63 (SD = 3556.81), the sample comprised 56.6% of male participants. Instrument - questionnaire divided into five parts: 1) Meaning of Internet addiction - it was requested to answer the following question: "In your opinion what does Internet addiction mean?". 2) Sociodemographic data and characteristics of the internet using. 3) Evaluation of self-perception as a dependent - It consisted of a specified scale ranging from 0 (not considered addicted) to 10 (it is considered totally addicted). 4) Evaluation of the level of dependence on the internet - we used the Internet Addiction Test (IAT). 5) Life Quality Evaluation - use of the Brazilian version of the life quality WHOQOL-bref. The results indicated that participants noticed the Internet in five categories: loss of control of the connection time, implication for ordinary practices, the exchange of real life for virtual life, the need of integration with the world, and Internet addiction as a pathology. Besides assigning meanings that enhanced the negative characteristics of addiction, most of the subjects reported having Internet addiction. Both, addiction score and self-perception affected negatively the scores of life quality.