Pathological Internet Use (PIU)
Psychology: Digital & Consumer1 sample item
About this scale
Problematic internet use is a common phenomenon. The Pathological Internet Use (PIU) scale helps to identify people with pathological Internet use. One of the advantages of the PIU is that it is a short and simple scale. In the study by Morahan-Martin and Schumacher (2000) , pathological Internet use is defined as follows:
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Notes
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Source & citation
Morahan-Martin, J. and Schumacher, P. (2000). Incidence and correlates of pathological Internet use among college students. Computers in Human Behavior, 16 , 13-29.
Problematic internet use
Internet & Computer Addiction via HelpGuide.org
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