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The co-occurrence of behavioral addiction symptoms among Singapore university students and the implications to the family
Date Issued
2016
Citation
Tang, S. K., & Koh, Y. (19 Feb 2016). The co-occurrence of behavioral addiction symptoms among Singapore university students and the implications to the family. Impact of Individual Behavioral Addiction on the Family, Ventus Evans Room.
Type
Conference Paper
Abstract
The current study attempts to investigate the prevalence of various behavioral addiction symptoms and their co-occurrence among Singapore University Students. 1127 undergraduates at NUS were invited to the study. Social media, food and compulsive buying addiction were assessed by standardized and validated psychological instruments. Around 5.3%, 13.9% and 2.8% of students reported high occurrence of behavioral addiction symptoms in social media addiction, food addiction and compulsive buying respectively. Further analyses on co-occurrence of behavioral addiction symptoms found that 13.1% of the students reported co-occurrence of social media and food addiction symptoms, 5.7% reported co-occurrence of social media and compulsive buying symptoms, 9.5% reported co-occurrence of compulsive buying and food addiction symptoms, and 4.4% reported co-occurrence of all three
addiction symptoms. The study shed light on the prevalence of the behavioral addiction symptoms and the co-occurrence of symptoms among young adults in Singapore. The outcomes could inform future studies as well as prevention and intervention strategies for family members, educators and policy makers.
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