Self-esteem,personality and Internet Addiction: A cross-cultural comparison study |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Psychology, Saarland University, Saarbruecken, Germany;2. Department of Psychology, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany;3. Center for Economics and Neuroscience, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany;4. Institute of Psychology and Education, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany;5. Key Laboratory for NeuroInformation/Center for Information in Medicine, School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China |
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| Abstract: | Previous work from Germany and Austria highlighted the importance of personality and excessive private Internet usage for Internet Addiction (IA). In a cross-cultural approach we tried to replicate a negative association between IA and the personality trait of self-directedness in Bulgaria, Germany, Spain, Colombia, China, Taiwan and Sweden and as well the finding that persons with a damaged self-esteem have a higher proclivity for becoming Internet addicted in Bulgaria, Spain, Germany and Colombia. In total N = 989 took part in the study. Results show that the personality dimension self-directedness was negatively correlated to the IA score of the participants in all samples. In contrast, no interaction effect between implicit and explicit self-esteem on IA could be observed. |
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| Keywords: | Implicit and explicit self-esteem Self-directedness Internet Addiction Personality |
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