title: The severity of Internet addiction risk and its relationship with the severity of borderline personality features, childhood traumas, dissociative experiences, depression and anxiety symptoms among Turkish university students.
abstract: The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship of Internet addiction (IA) risk with the severity of borderline personality features, childhood traumas, dissociative experiences, depression and anxiety symptoms among Turkish university students. A total of 271 Turkish university students participated in this study. The students were assessed through the Internet Addiction Scale (IAS), the Borderline Personality Inventory (BPI), the Dissociative Experiences Scale (DES), the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ-28), the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) and the Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI). The rates of students were 19.9% (n=54) in the high IA risk group, 38.7% (n=105) in the mild IA risk group and 41.3% (n=112) in the group without IA risk. Correlation analyses revealed that the severity of IA risk was related with BPI, DES, emotional abuse, CTQ-28, depression and anxiety scores. Univariate covariance analysis (ANCOVA) indicated that the severity of borderline personality features, emotional abuse, depression and anxiety symptoms were the predictors of IAS score, while gender had no effect on IAS score. Among childhood trauma types, emotional abuse seems to be the main predictor of IA risk severity. Borderline personality features predicted the severity of IA risk together with emotional abuse, depression and anxiety symptoms among Turkish university students.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Turgut Ozal University, Ankara, Turkey. Electronic address: edalbudak@hotmail.com.
authors.forename: Ercan
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Dalbudak
authors.affiliation: Bakirkoy Training and Research Hospital for Psychiatry, Neurology and Neurosurgery, Alcohol and Drug Research, Treatment and Training Center (AMATEM), Istanbul, Turkey.
authors.forename: Cuneyt
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Evren
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Turgut Ozal University, Ankara, Turkey.
authors.forename: Secil
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Aldemir
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Baltalimani State Hospital for Muskuloskeletal Disorders, Istanbul, Turkey.
authors.forename: Bilge
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Evren
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001007:Anxiety / Q000150:complications / Q000523:psychology*; D016739:Behavior, Addictive / Q000150:complications / Q000523:psychology*; D001883:Borderline Personality Disorder / Q000150:complications / Q000523:psychology*; D002648:Child; D002649:Child Abuse / Q000523:psychology*; D003863:Depression / Q000150:complications / Q000523:psychology*; D003866:Depressive Disorder; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D008297:Male; D010555:Personality Inventory; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D012306:Risk; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014421:Turkey; D014495:Universities
keywords: Anxiety; Borderline personality; Childhood trauma; Depression; Dissociation; Internet Addiction; University students