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Generalized problematic internet use, emotional regulation and self-esteem in adults
| dc.contributor.author | Maia, B. R. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Morgado, P. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-03-14T11:58:58Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-03-14T11:58:58Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2022-06 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Introduction: Many internationally studies, in the last two decades, found problematic internet use associated with a variety of psychosocial problems, but in Portugal this is a recent research question specially in adults. Objectives: To explore the relationship between problematic Internet use, emotional regulation and self-esteem. Methods: 138 Portuguese subjects (77.5% females), with a mean age of 27.76 years old (SD = 8.98, range: 18-58) filled in the Portuguese versions of the Generalized Problematic Internet Use Scale-2, the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale and the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale. Results: Negative consequences subscale of generalized problematic internet use was positively correlated with all the emotional regulation difficulties subscales and negatively with Self-Esteem, and positively with daily hours of internet usage. A similar result was found for Self-Deficient Regulation subscale, except for Clarity subscale. Mood Regulation was correlated with Strategies, Goals and Self-Esteem. Males showed higher levels of Negative Consequences. Age and age onset of Internet use were negatively correlated with Mood Regulation, Self-Deficient Regulation and Negative Consequences. A statistically significant difference in Mood Regulation, Self-Deficient Regulation and Negative Consequences in marital status levels, and in professional situation, with higher median scores in divorced and single without a relationship and in student subjects; no significant differences were found in educational level. Conclusions: Generalized problematic Internet use, especially their Negative Consequences, is associated with higher emotional dysregulation, low self-esteem, lower age and lower age of Internet onset, being divorced or single without a relationship and being student, and it is more prevalent in males. | pt_PT |
| dc.description.version | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion | pt_PT |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0924-9338 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/40569 | |
| dc.identifier.wos | 000897965702587 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | pt_PT |
| dc.peerreviewed | yes | pt_PT |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Adults | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Emotional regulation | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Generalized problematic internet use | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Self-esteem | pt_PT |
| dc.title | Generalized problematic internet use, emotional regulation and self-esteem in adults | pt_PT |
| dc.type | journal article | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| oaire.citation.endPage | S816 | pt_PT |
| oaire.citation.startPage | S815 | pt_PT |
| oaire.citation.title | European Psychiatry | pt_PT |
| oaire.citation.volume | 65 | pt_PT |
| rcaap.rights | openAccess | pt_PT |
| rcaap.type | article | pt_PT |