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Excessive internet use: the role of personality, loneliness and social support networks in internet addiction Open
An online survey of 96 adults showed that, based on Young's (1998) criteria for the Internet Addiction Test, 40% of the sample could be classified as average internet users, 52% as problem over-users and 8% as pathologically addicted to th…
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The Effect of Ageism on the Digital Divide Among Older Adults Open
Studies have shown that older adults tend to use the Internet less than younger people 1 .That is, older adults as a group are on the negative side of the digital divide.The term "digital divide" refers to the tendency for older adults to …
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Dissecting Spear Phishing Emails for Older vs Young Adults Open
Spear phishing emails are key in many cyber attacks. Successful emails employ psychological weapons of influence and relevant life domains. This paper investigates spear phishing susceptibility as a function of Internet user age (old vs yo…
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Internet use and problematic Internet use among adolescents in Japan: A nationwide representative survey Open
A cross-sectional survey using YDQ of a large number of high school students yielded a PIU prevalence of 7.9% in Japan. This study showed that problems associated with Internet overuse have already become serious; therefore, planning and i…
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Internet usage among pregnant women for seeking health information: A review article Open
Health providers must have sufficient ability for interpreting the achieved information from the Internet and should allocate efficient amount of time for discussing information-seeking manners with pregnant women. Furthermore, they must t…
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Assessing the Buyer Trust and Satisfaction Factors in the E-Marketplace Open
Indonesian online sales have received remarkable growth with as high as 20% consistently every year. In 2016, there were estimated more than 180 million internet users and have reached 40% of 250 million total inhabitants. Based on the sur…
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Marriage, Choice, and Couplehood in the Age of the Internet Open
How do the Internet and social media technology affect our romantic lives? Critics of the Internet's effect on social life identify the overabundance of choice of potential partners online as a likely source of relationship instability. Th…
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Analisis Sentimen Terhadap Layanan Indihome Berdasarkan Twitter Dengan Metode Klasifikasi Support Vector Machine (SVM) Open
In the year 2018, 18.9% of the population in Indonesia mentioned that the main reason for their use of the Internet is social media. One of the social media with an active user of 6.43 million users is Twitter. Based on the surge of inform…
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Impact of Internet Use on Mental Health among Elderly Individuals: A Difference-in-Differences Study Based on 2016–2018 CFPS Data Open
The number of elderly Internet users has increased significantly in the past few years. However, the impact of Internet use on mental health remains unclear. In this study, we performed a difference-in-differences analysis using data from …
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Who is afraid of fake news? Modeling risk perceptions of misinformation in 142 countries Open
Using survey data from 154,195 respondents in 142 countries, we investigate internet user perceptions of the risks associated with being exposed to misinformation. We find that: 1) The majority of regular internet users globally (58.5%) wo…
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Analyzing the User's Sentiments of ChatGPT Using Twitter Data Open
ChatGPT, an advanced language model based on artificial intelligence developed by the OpenAI, was released to internet users on November 30, 2022, and has attracted a great deal of attention. The feelings and thoughts of those who first ex…
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Cultural Correlates of Internet Addiction Open
Increasing problems connected with excessive Internet use can be observed all over the world. Internet addiction is defined as excessive involvement in the Internet with negative consequences. The main aim of the study was to investigate e…
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Older adults’ online information seeking and subjective well-being: The moderating role of internet skills Open
As increasing numbers of older adults incorporate the Internet into their lives, it is important to go beyond studying whether being an Internet user makes a difference for this population by examining how specific uses and skills relate t…
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Web phishing detection techniques: a survey on the state‐of‐the‐art, taxonomy and future directions Open
Internet dragged more than half of the world's population into the cyber world. Unfortunately, with the increase in internet transactions, cybercrimes also increase rapidly. With the anonymous structure of the internet, attackers attempt t…
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Media-Based Leisure and Wellbeing: A Study of Older Internet Users Open
Studies exploring digital technology in the context of leisure for older people tend to neglect their parallel use of traditional media. By simultaneous examination of both online and offline recreational media use, the present study explo…
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Facebook as an instrument of election campaigning and voters’ engagement: Comparing Czechia and Poland Open
Adding to the growing scholarship on the use and role of social media in election campaigning, this article examines and compares the character and determinants of Internet users’ engagement with political party communication in 2013 and 2…
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Exploring Learners' Sequential Behavioral Patterns, Flow Experience, and Learning Performance in an Anti-Phishing Educational Game. Open
Introduction As of 2014, there were 2.4 billion Internet users globally (Internet World Stats, 2014). However, studies show that Internet users are often unaware of the dangers of the phishing attacks they are exposed to (Arachchilage & Lo…
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Leverage Website Favicon to Detect Phishing Websites Open
Phishing attack is a cybercrime that can lead to severe financial losses for Internet users and entrepreneurs. Typically, phishers are fond of using fuzzy techniques during the creation of a website. They confuse the victim by imitating th…
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Relationships Between Sexting, Self-Esteem, and Sensation Seeking Among Australian Young Adults Open
The influence of information communication technology has brought about the phenomenon of sexting. Sexting is defined as sending, receiving, or forwarding on sexually explicit messages and images via the Internet or a mobile phone. The cur…
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Older People’s Use and Nonuse of the Internet in Sweden Open
The use of the internet has considerably increased over recent years, and the importance of internet use has also grown as services have gone online. Sweden is largely an information society like other countries with high reported use amon…
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Sentiment Analysis on Indian Indigenous Languages: A Review on Multilingual Opinion Mining Open
An increase in the use of smartphones has laid to the use of the internet and social media platforms. The most commonly used social media platforms are Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram. People are sharing their personal experience…
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Peer Influence in Internet and Digital Game Addicted Adolescents: Is Internet / Digital Game Addiction Contagious? Open
Background: Internet and digital game addictions can be seen mostly amongst adolescents, although it is possible to see individuals at all ages suffering from these problems. According to international literature, the prevalence of Interne…
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Modeling of User Portrait Through Social Media Open
Nowadays, massive useful data of user information and social behavior have been accumulated on the Internet, providing a possibility of profiling user's personality traits online. In this paper, we propose a psychological modeling method b…
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What is a Population in Online Shopping Research? A perspective from Malaysia Open
The rise of internet usage worldwide has created a new phenomenon of consumer behaviour, in which the consumers’ attention has been shifted to online purchasing. The increase confidence in technology and online payment sectors are causing …
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Social Isolation, Cognitive Function, and Depression Among Chinese Older Adults: Examining Internet Use as a Predictor and a Moderator Open
Objectives Despite the theoretical and practical interest in Internet use among older adults, evidence examining the impacts of Internet use on late-in-life health is limited. This study examines how Internet use affects depression and cog…
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The Effects of Need Satisfaction and Dissatisfaction on Flourishing among Young Chinese Gamers: The Mediating Role of Internet Gaming Disorder Open
Given the increasing popularity of online game playing, the negative impacts of game addiction on both adolescents and adults attracted our attention. Previous studies based on the self-determination theory have examined the effects of the…
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Analisis Pengaruh Persepsi Risiko, Kemudahan Dan Manfaat Terhadap Keputusan Pembelian Secara Online (Studi Kasus Pada Konsumen Barang Fashion Di Facebook) Open
The purpose of this research is to examine perceived risk, perceived ease to use, perceived benefit on buying decision online. Using internet to shopping online will give customers more benefit. In this research, data were obtained using a…
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The influence of demographic factors on perceived risks affecting attitude towards online shopping Open
Background: Online shopping adoption has been rising in South Africa (SA). However, there is still a large majority of consumers who are not buying online because of certain risks associated with online shopping. This is despite the fact t…
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Relationship Between Internet Behaviors and Social Engagement in Middle-Aged and Older Adults in Taiwan Open
Aim: To examine older adults’ Internet use patterns and its relationship with social engagement. Methods: Telephonic interview data of older Internet users from two urban and two rural areas were analyzed (N = 248). Cluster analysis was us…
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Differences between Facebook and Instagram Usage in Regard to Problematic Use and Well-Being Open
Although the association of well-being (e.g., self-esteem, depression symptoms, and loneliness) with Facebook usage (i.e., number of friends and frequency of use) has been investigated by many researchers, only a limited number of studies …