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Prevalence of behavioral addictions among college students in seven countries
Date Issued
2018
Citation
Tang, S. K., Koh, Y. Y. W., Gan, Y. Q., Wu, A. M. S., Yan, E. C. W., H, J., Kwon, J. H., & Yogo, M. (23-25 Apr 2018). Prevalence of behavioral addictions among college students in seven countries. 5th International Conference on Behavioral Addictions, Cologne, Germany.
Type
Conference Paper
Abstract
Background: The current study aimed to investigate Internet addiction, online gaming ad- diction, online social networking addiction, food addiction and compulsive buying among college students from United States, Singapore, Hong Kong/Macau, Taiwan, China, Korea and Japan. Methods: 7645 college students were recruited to complete the survey which examined internet, online gaming, social networking, food addiction and compulsive buy- ing. Validated psychological instruments were used to measure behavioral addictions. Re-sults: A big proportion of college students were addicted to Internet (4.6%), online gaming (19.0%), social networking (32.6%), food (4.8%) and compulsive buying (14.4%) in the total sample. For Internet addiction, students from Singapore, China and Japan were found to have higher Internet addiction in comparison to students from United States. Students from Hong Kong/Macau were found to be more addicted to online gaming and compulsive buying than
American students. Students from all Asian countries were found to more addicted to social networking but less addicted to food in comparison to American students. Conclusions: Be-havioral addictions were found to have a significant prevalence among college students from different countries. Social networking in particular was more prevalent among Asian college students whereas food addiction was most prevalent among American college students.
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