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Prevalence of pathological internet use among adolescents in Europe: demographic and social factors

  1. Tony Durkee1,†,
  2. Michael Kaess2,3,†,
  3. Vladimir Carli1,
  4. Peter Parzer2,
  5. Camilla Wasserman4,5,
  6. Birgitta Floderus6,
  7. Alan Apter7,
  8. Judit Balazs8,9,
  9. Shira Barzilay7,
  10. Julio Bobes10,11,
  11. Romuald Brunner2,
  12. Paul Corcoran12,
  13. Doina Cosman13,
  14. Padraig Cotter12,
  15. Romain Despalins1,
  16. Nadja Graber14,
  17. Francis Guillemin15,
  18. Christian Haring14,
  19. Jean-Pierre Kahn16,
  20. Laura Mandelli5,17,
  21. Dragan Marusic18,
  22. Gergely Mészáros8,
  23. George J. Musa4,
  24. Vita Postuvan18,
  25. Franz Resch2,
  26. Pilar A. Saiz10,11,
  27. Merike Sisask19,
  28. Airi Varnik19,
  29. Marco Sarchiapone5,
  30. Christina W. Hoven4,20,
  31. Danuta Wasserman1,*

Article first published online: 26 JUL 2012

DOI: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.2012.03946.x

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Addiction

Addiction

Volume 107, Issue 12, pages 2210–2222, December 2012

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Durkee, T., Kaess, M., Carli, V., Parzer, P., Wasserman, C., Floderus, B., Apter, A., Balazs, J., Barzilay, S., Bobes, J., Brunner, R., Corcoran, P., Cosman, D., Cotter, P., Despalins, R., Graber, N., Guillemin, F., Haring, C., Kahn, J.-P., Mandelli, L., Marusic, D., Mészáros, G., Musa, G. J., Postuvan, V., Resch, F., Saiz, P. A., Sisask, M., Varnik, A., Sarchiapone, M., Hoven, C. W. and Wasserman, D. (2012), Prevalence of pathological internet use among adolescents in Europe: demographic and social factors. Addiction, 107: 2210–2222. doi: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.2012.03946.x

Author Information

  1. 1

    National Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention of Mental Ill-Health (NASP), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

  2. 2

    Section for Disorders of Personality Development, Clinic of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Centre of Psychosocial Medicine, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

  3. 3

    Orygen Youth Health, Melbourne, Australia

  4. 4

    Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Columbia University–New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY, USA

  5. 5

    Department of Health Sciences, University of Molise, Campobasso, Italy

  6. 6

    Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

  7. 7

    Feinberg Child Study Centre, Schneider Children's Medical Centre, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

  8. 8

    Vadaskert Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Hospital, Budapest, Hungary

  9. 9

    Institute of Psychology, Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary

  10. 10

    Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain

  11. 11

    Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental (CIBERSAM), Oviedo, Spain

  12. 12

    National Suicide Research Foundation, Cork, Ireland

  13. 13

    Clinical Psychology Department, Iuliu Hatieganu University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

  14. 14

    Research Division for Mental Health, University for Medical Information Technology (UMIT), Hall in Tirol, Austria

  15. 15

    Inserm CIC-EC, Nancy University Hospital, Nancy, France

  16. 16

    Department of Psychiatry, Centre Hospitalo–Universitaire de Nancy, Université H. Poincaré, Nancy, France

  17. 17

    Institute of Psychiatry ‘P. Ottonello’, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

  18. 18

    Health Research Department, PINT, University of Primorska, Koper, Slovenia

  19. 19

    Estonian–Swedish Mental Health and Suicidology Institute, Central Behavior and Health Science, Tallinn University, Tallinn, Estonia

  20. 20

    Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

  1. †

    Both authors contributed equally to this paper, therefore both should be considered as first authors.

* Correspondence to: Danuta Wasserman, National Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention of Mental Ill-Health (NASP), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, 171 65, Sweden. E-mail: danuta.wasserman@ki.se

  1. †

    Both authors contributed equally to this paper, therefore both should be considered as first authors.

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 20 NOV 2012
  2. Article first published online: 26 JUL 2012
  3. Accepted manuscript online: 23 MAY 2012 07:48AM EST
  4. Manuscript Accepted: 9 MAY 2012
  5. Manuscript Revised: 5 OCT 2011
  6. Manuscript Received: 28 JUL 2011

Funded by

  • European Union through the Seventh Framework Program (FP7). Grant Number: HEALTH-F2-2009-223091

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add3946-sup-0001-si.docx33K Table S1. Response rates for all Saving and Empowering Young Lives in Europe (SEYLE) countries.
add3946-sup-0001-si.docx33K Table S2. Response rates for eight countries (Austria, France and Slovenia were excluded).
add3946-sup-0001-si.docx33K Table S3a. Multinomial regression model of Young Diagnostic Questionnaire for Internet Addiction (YDQ) categories by demographic and social factors.a
add3946-sup-0001-si.docx33K Table S3b. Multinomial regression model of Young Diagnostic Questionnaire for Internet Addiction (YDQ) categories by demographic and social factors;a Austria, France and Slovenia excluded from the analyses.
add3946-sup-0001-si.docx33K Table S4a. Linear regression model of Young Diagnostic Questionnaire for Internet Addiction (YDQ) total score by demographic and social factors.a
add3946-sup-0001-si.docx33K Table S4b. Linear regression model of Young Diagnostic Questionnaire for Internet Addiction (YDQ) total score by demographic and social factors;a Austria, France and Slovenia excluded from the analyses.

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