(2) Internet addiction in Korean adolescents and its relation to depression and suicidal ideation: A questionnaire survey ========================== Abstract This study examined the relationship of Internet addiction to depression and suicidal ideation in Korean adolescents. The participants were 1573 high-school students living in a city who completed the self-reported measures of the Internet Addiction Scale, the Korean version of the Diagnostic Interview Schedule for Children-Major Depression Disorder-Simple Questionnaire, and the Suicidal Ideation Questionnaire-Junior. A correlational survey design was employed. Among the samples, 1.6% was diagnosed as Internet addicts, while 38.0% was classified as possible Internet addicts. The prevalence of Internet addiction did not vary with gender. The levels of depression and suicide ideation were highest in the Internet-addicts group. Future studies should investigate the direct relationship between psychological health problems and Internet dependency. =============================== Kyunghee Kima, Eunjung Ryub, , , Mi-Young Chonb, Eun-Ja Yeunb, So-Young Choic, Jeong-Seok Seod, Bum-Woo Namd a Department of Nursing, Chung-Ang University, 221, Heuksuk-dong, Dongjak-gu, Seoul 156-756, Republic of Korea b Department of Nursing, Konkuk University, 322 Danwol-dong, Chungju 380-701, Republic of Korea c Department of Nursing, Gyeong-Sang Institute of Health Science, Gyeong-Sang National University, 92 Chilam-dong, Jinju 660-751, Republic of Korea d Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, Konkuk University Chungju Hospital, 620-5 Kyohyun 2-dong, Chungju 380-704, Republic of Korea Received 12 August 2004, Revised 4 February 2005, Accepted 22 February 2005, Available online 11 April 2005 ================== sciencedirect/science/article/pii/S002074890500043X
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