Fengqiong Liu, Shuming Qu, Yi Fan, Fa Chen, Baochang He
Scientific creativity and innovation ability and its determinants among medical postgraduate students in Fujian province of China: a cross sectional study
BMC medical education
objectives internet addiction behavioral addiction characterized excessive compulsive use internet risk internet addiction among adolescents risen recently due increase technological advancement globalization however previous studies focused precipitating factors triggering internet addiction without looking exogenous factors boundary conditions family functioning either sustain weaken behavior thus present study aimed examine moderating role family functioning relationship personality traits internet addiction among adolescents methods study crosssectional study consisting 3150 adolescent students gradeclass level jss1ss3 assessed standardized measures bigfive personality inventory internet addictive test family apgar index pearson correlation used explore bivariate relationships demographic variable variables interest hayes regressionbased process macro spss used test hypotheses results 1 openness experience conscientiousness extraversion neuroticism positively correlated internet addiction whereas agreeableness negatively associated internet addiction 2 positive family functioning correlated negatively internet addiction 3 positive family functioning moderated relationships extraversion agreeableness internet addiction openness experience conscientiousness neuroticism internet addiction conclusions positive family functioning correlated negatively internet addiction among adolescents suggesting improving family functioning would valuable tactic reducing adolescents susceptibility personalityrelated internet addiction