The study aimed to investigate different factors of vulnerability for pathological buying in the online context and to determine whether online pathological buying has parallels to a specific Internet addiction. According to a model of specific Internet addiction by Brand and colleagues, potential vulnerability factors may consist of a predisposing excitability from shopping and as mediating va...

conclusions: although our study showed the prevalence of internet addiction was not more than other populations and universities, since the prevalence of internet addiction is rapidly increasing worldwide, this population might also be at risk of addiction. thus, focusing on related factors can help us in designing more effective interventions and treatments for this susceptible group. results:...

Two studies are presented that investigate information seeking behaviour on the Internet. In Study One, soccer fans’ information seeking on the World Wide Web (WWW) is investigated. In Study Two, access rates to a cancer information website are analysed. It is tentatively argued that there is a tendency for people to access information more commonly avoided in ‘real life’, although in the case ...

background: internet is an important source of up-to-date dental information for delivering educational materials. the aim of this study was to determine the use of internet among dental students in yazd. methods: in this descriptive study, a questionnaire consisting of multiple choice questions was distributed to clinical undergraduate students studying at the school of dentistry at the shahid...

Experimental results show that in large complex networks (such as internet, social or biological networks) there exists a tendency to connect elements which have a common neighbor. In theoretical random graph models, this tendency is described by the clustering coefficient being bounded away from zero. Complex networks also have power-law degree distributions and short average distances (small ...

Experimental results show that in large complex networks such as internet or biological networks, there is a tendency to connect elements which have a common neighbor. This tendency in theoretical random graph models is depicted by the asymptotically constant clustering coefficient. Moreover complex networks have power law degree distribution and small diameter (small world phenomena), thus the...

although the internet has become one of the most important information resources for university students, excessive internet use can be defined as uncontrolled and harmful use of the internet, in other words, internet addiction. internet addiction (ia) can be described as a maladaptive preoccupation with internet use impairing social, occupational and other areas of a person’s functioning. rece...