Internet Addiction – An Umbrella Construct

Problematic Internet Use or “Internet addiction” is generally considered as an inability to control the use of the Internet, which eventually involves psychological, social, academic, and/or professional problems in a person's life. Dysfunctional use of the Internet has been related to a variety of different activities such as cybersex, online gambling, online video game playing, or social network involvement, thereby emphasizing that this problematic behavior can take very different forms across individuals and should not be viewed as a homogeneous construct. Since its appearance in the psychiatric and clinical…