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This Paper, "Internet Addiction and its Personality Correlates", is co-authored with Julia Loytsker and was originally presented at the Eastern Psychological Association Conference in Washington, D.C. in 1997.
ABSTRACT - Psychological effects of Internet chat addiction were examined using self-esteem, locus of control, loneliness, self-consciousness, shyness, sociability and boredom proneness as predictors and hours spent on chat and degree of perceived negative impact of chat on one's life as dependant variables. Multiple regression analysis yielded boredom proneness, private self-consciousness, loneliness and social anxiety as predictors of negative impact.
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