Internet
Use Self-Test
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1997
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Ask yourself the following
questions. If you answer "yes" to three or more, you
MAY have a problem with internet dependency. If you are unsure,
you may want to talk with a friend, family member or counselor.
Also, you can check out the literature on the subject by consulting
the Internet Dependency Reading List.
Within the past 12 months,
have you:
- Used the internet over longer
periods of time than you intended?
- Significantly reduced important
social, occupational, or recreational activities due to your
Internet use?
- Failed to fulfill major
responsibilities at work, school or home due to your Internet
use? (For example, poor academic or work performance, neglect
of household, financial stress.)
- Continued Internet use despite
recurrent social problems caused by, or increated by, internet
use? (For example, arguments with friends about time, emotional
absence from others.)
- Felt a consistent desire
to, or made unsuccessful efforts to, cut down or control your
use of the Internet?
- Spent a great deal of time
accessing the Internet?
- Had recurrent legal problems
related to Internet use? (For example, "hacking," illegal
use of Internet access, or illegal Internet related materials.)
- Continued use of the Internet
despite knowledge of having a psychological or physical problem
that is likely to be caused or worsened by Internet use?
- Developed tolerance symptoms
related to internet use? (For example, increased Internet use
over time to get the same desired or positive feeling, or decrease
indesired feeling with the same level of use.)
- Experienced withdrawal symptions
in reaction to decreased use of the Internet? These symptoms
have either interrupted important areas of life functioning or
led to the use of a similar object of technology (like other
computer use) to relieve withdrawal symptions.