Melek SUNDE YİLDİRİM, Guzin M SEVİNCER, ALİ KANDEĞER, Ceyda AFACAN

Investigation of the relationship between risk of Internet addiction, food addiction, and self-esteem in high school students

Objective: Increasing Internet addiction and food addiction in the 21st century have become a focal point for researchers. There is strong evidence that low self-esteem is a risk factor for behavioral and chemical addictions. Our aim in this study is to examine the relationship between risk of Internet addiction, food addiction, and self-esteem in students at a high school. Method: Participants were 378 high school students, who completed a package of psychological instruments, including the Internet Addiction Test (IAT), Yale Food Addiction Scale (YFAS), and Coopersmith Self-Esteem Inventory (CSEI). Study data were evaluated using linear regression analysis to examine the risk factors that were significant in univariate analyses. Results: Participants with high risk of Internet addiction had a significantly higher food addiction score (t=5.81; p

Lise öğrencilerinde İnternet bağımlılığı riski, yeme bağımlılığı ve benlik saygısı arasındaki ilişkinin incelenmesi

Amaç: Yirmi birinci yüzyılda İnternet bağımlılığı ve yeme bağımlılığının artması onları bilim insanlarının odak noktası haline getirmiştir. Düşük benlik saygısının davranışsal ve kimyasal bağımlılıklar için bir risk faktörü olduğuna dair güçlü kanıtlar vardır. Bu çalışmada amacımız lise öğrencilerinde İnternet bağımlılığı riski, yeme bağımlılığı ve benlik saygısı arasındaki ilişkiyi incelemektir. Yöntem: Katılımcı olarak 378 lise öğrencisi İnternet Bağımlılığı Testi (İBT), Yale Yeme Bağımlılığı Ölçeği (YYBÖ) ve Coopersmith Benlik Saygısı Envanteri de (CBSE) dahil olmak üzere psikolojik araçlardan oluşan bir form doldurdular. Çalışma verileri değerlendirildiğinde, tek değişkenli analizlerde anlamlı olan risk faktörlerini incelemek için Doğrusal Regresyon Analizi kullanılmıştır. Bulgular: İBT’e göre internet bağımlılığı riski yüksek olan katılımcılarda YYBÖ puanı yüksekti, İnternet bağımlılığı kriterlerini karşılamayan katılımcılara göre yeme bağımlılığı ölçek skoru daha yüksek (t=5.81; p

PDF

___

Anderson KJ. Internet use among college students: an exploratory study. J Am Coll Health 2001; 50:21-26. [CrossRef]

Griffiths M. Does internet and computer” addiction” exist? Some case study evidence. Cyberpsychol Behav 2000; 3:211-218. [CrossRef]

TurkStat. Survey on Information and Communication Technology (ICT) usage survey in households and by individuals, 2004- 2017 2017. http://www.tuik.gov.tr/PreTablo.do?alt_id=1028. Accessed August 10, 2017.

Holden C. ‘Behavioral’addictions: do they exist? Science. 2001; 294:980-982. [CrossRef]

Young KS. Internet addiction: a new clinical phenomenon and its consequences. Am Behav Sci 2004; 48:402-415. [CrossRef]

Petry NM, O’Brien CP. Internet gaming disorder and the DSM-5. Addiction 2013; 108:1186-1187. [CrossRef]

Volkow ND, Wang GJ, Fowler JS, Telang F. Overlapping neuronal circuits in addiction and obesity: evidence of systems pathology. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2008; 363:3191- 3200. [CrossRef]

Gearhardt AN, Davis C, Kuschner R, Brownell KD. The addiction potential of hyperpalatable foods. Curr Drug Abuse Rev 2011; 4:140-145. [CrossRef]

Cocores JA, Gold MS. The Salted Food Addiction Hypothesis may explain overeating and the obesity epidemic. Med Hypotheses 2009; 73:892-899. [CrossRef]

Greenberg JL, Lewis SE, Dodd DK. Overlapping addictions and self-esteem among college men and women. Addict Behav 1999; 24:565-571. [CrossRef]

Kuss DJ, Griffiths MD. Online social networking and addiction -a review of the psychological literature. Int J Environ Res Public Health 2011; 8:3528-3552. [CrossRef]

Tang CS, Koh YY. Online social networking addiction among college students in Singapore: comorbidity with behavioral addiction and affective disorder. Asian J Psychiatr 2017; 25:175- 178. [CrossRef]

Pantic I. Online social networking and mental health. Cyberpsychol Behav Soc Netw 2014; 17:652-657. [CrossRef]

Pantic I, Milanovic A, Loboda B, Błachnio A, Przepiorka A, Nesic D, Mazic S, Dugalic S, Ristic S. Association between physiological oscillations in self-esteem, narcissism and internet addiction: a cross-sectional study. Psychiatry Res 2017; 258: 239- 243. [CrossRef]

Beard CL, Haas AL, Wickham RE, Stavropoulos V. Age of initiation and internet gaming disorder: the role of self-esteem. Cyberpsychol Behav Soc Netw 2017; 20:397-401. [CrossRef]

Sahin C, Korkmaz O. Adaptation of the Internet Addiction Scale for Turkey. Selcuk University Ahmet Kelesoglu Education Faculty (AKEF) Journal 2011; 32:101-115. (Turkish)

Hahn A, Jerusalem M. Internet addiction: reliability and validity in online research. Online-Marktforschung: Springer, 2001, 211- 234. (German)

American Psychiatric Association. DSM-IV-TR: Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (4th ed., text rev.). Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association, 2000.

Gearhardt AN, Corbin WR, Brownell KD. Preliminary validation of the Yale Food Addiction Scale. Appetite 2009; 52:430-436. [CrossRef]

Sevincer GM, Konuk N, Bozkurt S, Saracli O, Coskun H. Psychometric properties of the Turkish version of the Yale Food Addiction Scale among bariatric surgery patients. Anatolian Journal of Psychiatry 2015; 16:44-53. [CrossRef]

Coopersmith SE. SEI-Self Esteem Inventories. Palo Alto, California: Consulting Psychologists Press; 1981.

Piskin M. Self-esteem and locus of control of secondary school children both in England and Turkey. University of Leicester, Faculty of Education and Continuing Studies. Unpublished Doctoral Dissertation, 1996.

Rodgers RF, Melioli T, Laconi S, Bui E, Chabrol H. Internet addiction symptoms, disordered eating, and body image avoidance. Cyberpsychol Behav Soc Netw 2013; 16:56-60. [CrossRef]

Tao Z. The relationship between internet addiction and bulimia in a sample of Chinese college students: depression as partial mediator between internet addiction and bulimia. Eat Weight Disord 2013; 18:233-243. [CrossRef]

Alpaslan AH, Kocak U, Avci K, Uzel-Tas H. The association between internet addiction and disordered eating attitudes among Turkish high school students. Eat Weight Disord 2015; 20:441-448. [CrossRef]

Celik CB, Odaci H, Bayraktar N. Is problematic internet use an indicator of eating disorders among Turkish university students? Eat Weight Disord 2015; 20:167-172. [CrossRef]

Tao Z, Liu Y. Is there a relationship between internet dependence and eating disorders? A comparison study of Internet dependents and non-internet dependents. Eat Weight Disord 2009; 14:77-83. [CrossRef]

Canan F, Yildirim O, Ustunel TY, Sinani G, Kaleli AH, Gunes C, Ataoglu A. The relationship between internet addiction and body mass index in Turkish adolescents. Cyberpsychol Behav Soc Netw 2014; 17:40-45. [CrossRef]

Bozkurt H, Ozer S, Sahin S, Sonmezgoz E. Internet use patterns and internet addiction in children and adolescents with obesity. Pediatr Obes 2017. doi: 10.1111/ijpo.1221.