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This paper reports an exploratory analysis of the relation between Internet addiction and patterns of use
among Portuguese adolescents (n ¼ 2617) from the WHO 2010 Health Behavior in School-aged children
study, with a short version of Young's Internet Addiction Test (the brief Internet Addiction Questionnaire
e bIAQ) and self-reports on online behaviors and access. Two-Step Cluster analysis identified two
clusters of users based on their usage pattern: a minority of high-frequency users, with higher bIAQ
scores, and a majority of low-frequency users, with lower bIAQ scores. Low and high-frequency users are
particularly distinct in specific activities, which converges with previous research showing addiction to
specific Internet activities rather than to the Internet as a whole.
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Keywords
Adolescents Internet addiction Internet use
Citation
Computers in Human Behavior, 58, 471-478. doi:10.1016/j.chb.2016.01.013
Publisher
Elsevier