الاستخدام المشكل للانترنت و علاقته بكل من خصائص الشخصية و المشكلات الأسرية لدى المراهقين مستخدمي الهواتف الذكية

الملخص EN

This study contributes to understanding problematic internet use among adolescents by exploring the role of both personality characteristics and family problems in it.

The sample was (616) students (322 males, 294 females) from the secondary and university levels, from Cairo and Giza in Egypt, who used computer and smartphone in their entry to the internet for at least one year, and whose ages ranged from (16- 21) yr.

(M= 19.05, SD= 1.

38 in males; M= 18.

73, SD= 1.

39 in females).

Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ)- prepared by Ahmed Abdel- Kalek 1991, personal data sheet, Problematic Internet Use Scal, and Family Problems Scaleprepared by the researcher- were used.

Results revealed that females were significantly higher in problematic internet use scores than males, significant differences existed between individuals with problematic internet use and those with normal use in neuroticism and the personality total score in males, while existed in extraversion, psychoticism, lie, and the personality total score in females.

Significant correlations found between problematic internet use and extraversion, neuroticism, and the personality total score in males; and between this use and neuroticism, psychoticism, lie, the personality total score in females, and family problems.

In addition, neuroticism predicted problematic internet use in males, wherease extraversion, psychoticism, the personality total score, and family problems were the predictors in females.