Outline and Issues of Internet Addiction
Journal Title: Biomedical Journal of Scientific & Technical Research (BJSTR) - Year 2018, Vol 6, Issue 5
Abstract
The Internet has been spreading rapidly since the late 1990’s. It exists as an indispensable tool in contemporary society. Japan’s individual Internet users have reached 80% of the population, which is convenient, but on the other hand, it is internet addiction that is becoming a some of problem. This review addresses the problems caused by Internet addiction.The term “Internet addiction” refers to a situation in which “control over the use of the Internet becomes difficult and, despite various problems, it is in a state where it cannot be stopped”. It proposed first by Ivan Goldberg in 1995 [1]. Although there is no definite diagnostic criteria of Internet addiction, Internet game disorder is indicated as an item under study in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) published by American Psychiatric Association (Table 1). The first edition of DSM was published in 1952 and has been revised several times since then, DSM-5 was released in May 2013 [2]. DSM was created mainly by psychiatrists for the aptitude assessment of soldiers during the Second World War and the treatment diagnosis of returned soldiers. It is effectively used as an international diagnostic manual. When introducing some of the items of Internet game disorder shown in DSM-5, withdrawal symptoms occur when taking Internet games, despite recognizing tolerance and social problems, continue excessive use of Internet games, and so on. Internet game disorders are characterized by many social problems such as poor academic achievement, school refusal, social withdrawal, sleep disorder and depression.The Internet began to spread in the latter half of the 1990s, its history is still shallow. However, in the United States, it has been reported about Internet addiction in 1998. In 2003, also in Korea, Internet subscribers to the population of one million people became the number one in the world and the number of young people immersed in online games has increased rapidly. According to Korea’s statistics in 2009, 12.8% of young people and 6.4% of adults were reported to be Internet addiction [3]. In the Norwegian survey, it was reported that males were more likely to depend on the Internet at the ages of 16 to 29 [4], and survey in China, middle to high school and university students aged 10 to 24, men showed 10.4%, women reported 5.9% respectively [5]. Although the Internet addiction tends to be relatively large in the young generation, since there are large variations, it is only necessary to have a unified manual for diagnosing the Internet addiction, but it seems that there is no such a manual.DSM-5, which is a de facto international manual, is often used as a diagnostic criterion for Internet addiction, but it is not made by referring to Internet addiction. Internet addiction patients do not mean those who do nothing but online games. Those who are continuing to watch videos, those who are surfing the Internet, those who are building human relationships via SNS etc., and those who use gambling or pornographic sites. There are such various types of Internet addiction patients, but classically they are classified into five types by Young et al. That is, SCC is a malignancy of epithelial origin capable of occurring in ogans that are covered with squamous epithelium. Non-melanoma skin cancer, head and neck cancer, esophageal cancer and nonsmall cell lung cancer account for majority of cases [23]. SCC as a variant of GC is an unusual histological subtype and rare. May occur as primary SCC, adenosquamous carcinoma or as collision tumour of the stomach [2-6].
Authors and Affiliations
Kazuto Doi, Mayumix Doi, Yukoh Yaegashi, Mitsuhiro Nishitani
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- DOI 10.26717/BJSTR.2018.06.001415
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