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Abstract
Excessive internet usage creates psychological, social, school, and/or work difficulties in a person’s life. Specifically, it may cause mental health problems such as anxiety, depression, and impulsivity, as well as isolation from social environment leading to academic failure or family problems (Jang et al., 2008). Due to its considerable influence and high accessibility, the Internet has been considered a hot topic in behavioral addiction (Nam et al., 2018). In a trial to understand this new area of addiction, several relevant factors have been investigated (Kormas et al., 2011).
Internet addiction among college students and its connection to emotional intelligence has become an issue worthy of extensive exploration as Most of the research regarding emotional stability, emotions and emotional intelligence showed that the people in cyberspace can take much more emotional saturation than in their real surrounding (Juneja et al., 2015).
resilience has been suggested as a protective factor against various psychopathologies, including addiction (Kim et al., 2014). Resilience is a broad variable, defined as “the personal qualities that enable one to thrive in the face of adversity”, and considered to be the availability of constructive coping strategies. That is, the effects of vulnerability can be buffered by high levels of resilience (Werner & Smith, 1992). Such protective effect of resilience has been supported in Internet addiction, in the same manner (Choi et al., 2014).
Paucity of the local and regional studies which investigate the relationship of internet addiction and each of emotional intelligence and resilience in comprehensive manner in both sexes creates a strong motive and justification to explore this relationship in depth and discuss our results in comparison to those of other countries and cultures. The aim of this study is to assess emotional intelligence and resilience in relation to internet addiction and it’s severity in university students: in both sexes, in first and last grades & in two different fields of study.
A comparative cross-sectional study was conducted in the faculty of Medicine and faculty of literature, Ain-Shams University at the beginning of the academic year. A total of 400 male and female university students were recruited; 200 students from faculty of medicine representing a practical faculty and 200 students from faculty of literature representing a theoretical faculty; 100 students from 1st grade and similar number from last grade; 50 male and female students equally chosen from each grade by stratified random sampling.
Male and female university students with age ranged 18-25 years were enrolled in the current study after giving informed consent. While, students with any disorder that clearly interferes with emotions such as, disabling medical illness, co-existing neuropsychiatric disorders, and developmental disability were excluded.
A set of self-reporting questionnaires in Arabic version were administered to the participants in one setting; Informative designed questionnaire (10-15 minutes), Young Internet Addiction test (IAT) (5-10 minutes), the Schutte Self Report Emotional Intelligence Test (SSEIT) (15-20 minutes), and The Resilience Scale (RS) (10-15 minutes). The assessment of the participants’ responses and interpretation of the results were done by a well-trained experienced researcher. The authors ensured the confidentiality of the participants by keeping the filled questionnaires in a locker with access limited to the researchers.
The main findings of the current study are that there is high percentage of Internet Addiction among University students. It was found that subjects with Internet Addiction score lower in EI and Resilience scales. Our findings were in agreement with previous studies examining the correlates of internet addiction. These correlates were found to be male gender, studying in theoretical faculty (faculty of literature), academic failure, emotional Intelligence and resilience. However, by performing multiple logistic regression including all study variables to assess the strength of associations and remove confounding effects, the only factors remained significant was Emotional Intelligence and Resilience.
Thus, Low scores of emotional intelligence and resilience could predict the susceptibility to internet addiction, suggesting that treatment strategies enhancing these factors would be of great value to be included in the programs targeted for the management of internet addiction.
from the strengths of the current study; first, the authors included gender, different study fields, and different study years which might allow better generalization and comparison, second, the authors had chosen a randomized sample to avoid selection bias and ensure more precise results. Third, to our knowledge, this is the first study to address internet addiction, emotional intelligence and resilience together, and one of the scarce studies investigating all domains of emotional intelligence and resilience in relation to internet addiction in Egypt and Arab countries. Our study was limited by applying cross-sectional design which hinders the causal relationships between the variables. Also, the study was conducted among the age group of 18-25, yet broader range would be recommended.
Future directions for research examining the correlates of internet addiction should take into consideration that our findings of significant negative correlation between internet addiction and both emotional intelligence and resilience regardless of different sociodemographic and academic variables deserve further assessment via longitudinal research. Further, it would be of great value to speculate on possible mechanisms for why emotional intelligence and resilience affect internet addiction. Finally, we recommend integration of both management of emotions and enhancing resilience in the treatment programs for individuals with internet addiction as both would be reflected on the social and adaptive functioning of those individuals.