Predicting adolescent Internet addiction: The roles of demographics, technology accessibility, unwillingness to communicate and sought Internet gratifications

Although research examining Internet addiction is as old as the Internet itself, the roles of Internet users’ background characteristics and sought Internet gratifications in predicting Internet addiction (IA) are still unclear. Previous literature has pointed out the urgent need to identify how Internet addicts differ from non-addicts with regard to their background characteristics and Internet gratifications. In order to provide conceptual...