research paper：互聯網對人類的不利影響Internet causes negative effects on people
11-19, 2015
研究dissertation research paper
互聯網是一個日益增長的技術,正在成為一個信息,娛樂和溝通的來源。然而，隨著互聯網被越來越多的人接受，我們的社會的生活方式也在改變，并且近幾年來的使用率正在急速增加。事實上，不僅青年兒童會對互聯網上癮，還包括成年人。這個習慣給人們的生活帶來極壞的影響。比如網癮有害思想健康，降低了人們的學習效率并阻礙了思維開發。它還對人的社交，身體健康和發展有害。越是深陷網絡的人，和家人朋友一起活動的時間就越少，因此他們的生活也越來越糟糕。
The internet is a growing technology, becoming a source of information, entertainment and communication. However, as the internet is becoming more accessible, our society is changing the way we use it, and in recent years this usage has been increasing rapidly. However, not only teenagers are having addiction on surfing the Internet but also in adults. This addiction negatively affects people’s life. For instance, this addiction is harmful to people’s mental health, reduces people's learning efficiency and hinders the development of people’s thinking. It impacts our social life, our health and our development adversely. As more time becomes dedicated to the internet, people suffering from internet addiction have less time left for family and friends as well as hobbies, thus making their social life weaker.
With the continuous development of technology, people can use the internet easier nowadays, for examples by using their smartphones iPad or laptop and they might waste a lot of time on it. It brings lots of conveniences to people when they are not in home or traveling to obtain something which are useful or just spend time when they are boring. Meanwhile, more and more malls and hotels supply free internet access to publics (Wi-Fi adaptor). It is supposed to be a convenient measure. However, there are lots of people, especially the youths, ask for internet access code as the first thing when they arrived a new place. The passwords are much more important than local features in those people’s mind, and few of people could even just stay at hotel for a whole day when they are travelling as long as they have the passwords for internet. We believe those kind of people had already over the nature of network services people and they had had addiction on internet. Internet addiction is just like any other addictions, it belongs to one of the modern diseases. It is very harmful to people’s health, especially their mental health. According to the World Health Organization, mental health means “a state of well-being in which every individual realizes his or her own potential, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and fruitfully, and is able to make a contribution to her or his community” (2014). When people get addicted to Internet they are unable to control behavior, start to neglect friends and family, and experience difficulty completing tasks at home or at work. They also feel guilty, ashamed, anxious or depressed about the excessive Internet usage. In other words, they get mentally unhealthy. Internet addiction can lead to impulse control disorder which can be loosely defined as the failure to resist an impulsive act or behavior that may be harmful to self or others. It causes problems related to personality, family, studies, individual economy, and occupational life for the IAD sufferer.#p#分頁標題#e#
Although the internet brings lots of convenience to our lives, for example it enriches the method of entertainment for people, using the internet can affect people’s time management. People could have video chat with their friends without hanging out and play some videos games with them at the same time and this is easily forget about time. Meanwhile, people could get almostall the daily information they need on the internet, for example the weather forecast report, get news online, instead of newspapersor learn a new recipe to cook. However, this information is too convenient to acquire and it used to attractive to read online, thus people easily concentrate on reading this information or playing those video games and forget about time or their current jobs in hand. A lot of people said that they feel the time was passing so fast when they are surfing on the internet. It is not hard to understand this phenomenon, because news is updated continuallyto let people keep reading and games display the “play again”option immediately to let people replay once they are finished. People can hardly control themselves and stop doing these things when they are using the internet. In another words, a job is supposed to finish in an hour, but some of people will finish it by two or more hours with the internet. A study from the Young Diagnostic Questionnaire (YDQ) shows how many hours people with Internet addiction spend on the Internet. In the study, thirty-two freshman and sophomore students were involved. Half of them suffered from IAD (mean age = 19.4±3.1 years, education 13.4±2.5 years) while the other half of students are healthy (mean age = 19.5±2.8 years, education 13.3±2.0 years) with no personal or family history of psychiatric disorders. The conclusion from above study is supported by a Netherlands study (Daria J. Kuss, Antonius J. van Rooij, Gillian W. Shorter, Mark D. Griffiths, & D. van de Mheen, 2011). They were asked to finish a questionnaire contained eight yes-no questions criteria. Individuals who answered five or more “yes” to the eight questions were considered addicted. The researcher then investigated their life-style. They found that when people get addicted to the internet, they lose control of the time spent on the internet. Addicted persons spend multiplied hours on the internet than non-addicted persons. People with IAD spent 10.2±2.6 hours each day on online gaming and 6.3±0.5 days on the Internet per week, which has already occupied almost every minute of their waking hours. Meanwhile, the excessive use of Internet affects their mental situations. Addicted people felt they have more anxiety and depression, they measure higher on anxiety and depression scales which is proportional to their time spend on the Internet.
The online information is too free for people to acquire. People could hardly control themselvesto read the unhealthy information for instance, gambling and sexual websites, and those recognize fake advertisements. Once people get some profits, they will get addiction on that thing easily. Internet addiction currently affects not just the mental health of an Individual, but also that of an entire coming generation by negatively affecting the children. Moreover, those plenty of violent images and fake that information influence children’s behavior, and this is even harder for children to recognize whether it is an unhealthy message or not. In daily life, children need a great amount of human interaction and depend on their parent children relations to develop properly in their early years. In fact, according to the World Health Organization (2004), “inadequate and inappropriate social experiences in the early environment can compromise higher level neural systems that provide information needed to bond, imitate, and generally respond in socially appropriate ways”. However, as more and more children start becoming addicted to the internet, they start to lose out on this important stage of development.#p#分頁標題#e#
Nowadays, the number of children and teenagers who do not know how to writing and spell some simple vocabularies are increasing sharply, and this even occurs a lot on adults. However, it did not have this kind of situation when people were recording message or writing letters by using pencil and paper. Because of the decline in social interaction resulting from internet addiction, studies have found that the increasing trend of online videos is negatively affecting the language development of children. This is the best time for people to learn a language fast and accurately as a child. Most notably, after analyzing children who had been regular viewers of Baby Einstein, and those who had not, “the children addicted to the show actually knew fewer words than those without, once they entered preschool.” (Zimmerman and Dr. Christakis, 2007). The study showed that because of an increasingly reliability of internet content to replace actual interaction between people, children were actually left behind in this aspect of their development. They need an actual social life with those around them to develop these skills, which is not something someone from the distance on a video can teach them.
However, internet addiction affects not only children and their social lives, but also adults. Internet has provided platform for connecting people, especially beloved ones who are far away. However, the increasing usage of internet creates problems in creating and maintaining interpersonal relations. On one hand, it may bring distant people closer together but on the other hand it creates distance in the people that are already close around. “There is a negative relationship between internet addiction and sociability while a positive relation between internet addiction and distrust and disobedience.” according to Journal of Family Therapy, (Park, Kim, and Lee, 2014).Take, for instance, excessive use of social media sites and networks. People are spending more time texting, emailing, tweeting, uploading statuses, sharing pictures and commenting on each other’s posts than they are with people around them. According to an online survey of 184 internet users, people who spent more time on social networking sites were likely to be less involved in their real life communities (Kuss and Griffiths, 2011).
Meanwhile, the extra time spent on internet takes away from the time that could have been spent with family and friends, and as a result it makes relationships weaker. Nowadays, it is becoming common to see people surfing the web, socializing or video gaming while their family and friends are talking to them; these actions can be damaging as well as frustrating to the relationships and the overuse of internet gives rise to interpersonal relation problems, as advance research suggests (Park et al., 2014).
People need to avoid the internet addiction happens on ourselves, there are several suggestions that people may take:Keep a time log, tracking your time and activities on internet, and slowly limit your online activities and the time spent. Avoid allowing young children to watch online videos, especially without sitting and interacting with them; do not let online videos play in the backgrounds when everyone is busy with other things, especially when there are young children around. (Buckingham, D. 2008)#p#分頁標題#e#
We believe by following the above recommendations, the rate of Internet addiction can be decreased and it consequences lessened until further research can be completed on this growing problem.
References
Mental health: A state of well-being. (2014, August 1). Retrieved November 01, 2015, from
http://www.who.int/features/factfiles/mental_health/en/
Kuss, D. J., & Griffiths, M. D. (2014). Online social networking and addiction--a review of the
psychological literature.International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 8(9), 3528-3552. doi:10.3390/ijerph8093528
The importance of caregiver-child interaction for the survival and healthy development of
young children. (2004). World Health Organization. Retrieved October 11, 2015, from http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/2004/924159134X.pdf
Zimmerman, F., & Christakis, D. (2007). Associations between Media Viewing and Language
Development in Children (Vol. 151, pp. 364-368). Seattle, WA.
Park, T. Y., Kim, S., & Lee, J. (2014). Family therapy for an Internet‐addicted young adult with
interpersonalproblems.Journal of Family Therapy, 36(4), 394-419. doi:10.1111/1467-6427.12060
Kuss, D., & Griffiths, M. (2011, August 29). Online Social Networking and Addiction—A Review
of the Psychological Literature. Retrieved November 1, 2015, from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3194102
Buckingham, D. (2008). Youth, identity, and digital media. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
互聯網是一個日益增長的技術,正在成為一個信息,娛樂和溝通的來源。然而，隨著互聯網被越來越多的人接受，我們的社會的生活方式也在改變，并且近幾年來的使用率正在急速增加。事實上，不僅青年兒童會對互聯網上癮，還包括成年人。這個習慣給人們的生活帶來極壞的影響。比如網癮有害思想健康，降低了人們的學習效率并阻礙了思維開發。它還對人的社交，身體健康和發展有害。越是深陷網絡的人，和家人朋友一起活動的時間就越少，因此他們的生活也越來越糟糕。
The internet is a growing technology, becoming a source of information, entertainment and communication. However, as the internet is becoming more accessible, our society is changing the way we use it, and in recent years this usage has been increasing rapidly. However, not only teenagers are having addiction on surfing the Internet but also in adults. This addiction negatively affects people’s life. For instance, this addiction is harmful to people’s mental health, reduces people's learning efficiency and hinders the development of people’s thinking. It impacts our social life, our health and our development adversely. As more time becomes dedicated to the internet, people suffering from internet addiction have less time left for family and friends as well as hobbies, thus making their social life weaker.
With the continuous development of technology, people can use the internet easier nowadays, for examples by using their smartphones iPad or laptop and they might waste a lot of time on it. It brings lots of conveniences to people when they are not in home or traveling to obtain something which are useful or just spend time when they are boring. Meanwhile, more and more malls and hotels supply free internet access to publics (Wi-Fi adaptor). It is supposed to be a convenient measure. However, there are lots of people, especially the youths, ask for internet access code as the first thing when they arrived a new place. The passwords are much more important than local features in those people’s mind, and few of people could even just stay at hotel for a whole day when they are travelling as long as they have the passwords for internet. We believe those kind of people had already over the nature of network services people and they had had addiction on internet. Internet addiction is just like any other addictions, it belongs to one of the modern diseases. It is very harmful to people’s health, especially their mental health. According to the World Health Organization, mental health means “a state of well-being in which every individual realizes his or her own potential, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and fruitfully, and is able to make a contribution to her or his community” (2014). When people get addicted to Internet they are unable to control behavior, start to neglect friends and family, and experience difficulty completing tasks at home or at work. They also feel guilty, ashamed, anxious or depressed about the excessive Internet usage. In other words, they get mentally unhealthy. Internet addiction can lead to impulse control disorder which can be loosely defined as the failure to resist an impulsive act or behavior that may be harmful to self or others. It causes problems related to personality, family, studies, individual economy, and occupational life for the IAD sufferer.#p#分頁標題#e#
Although the internet brings lots of convenience to our lives, for example it enriches the method of entertainment for people, using the internet can affect people’s time management. People could have video chat with their friends without hanging out and play some videos games with them at the same time and this is easily forget about time. Meanwhile, people could get almostall the daily information they need on the internet, for example the weather forecast report, get news online, instead of newspapersor learn a new recipe to cook. However, this information is too convenient to acquire and it used to attractive to read online, thus people easily concentrate on reading this information or playing those video games and forget about time or their current jobs in hand. A lot of people said that they feel the time was passing so fast when they are surfing on the internet. It is not hard to understand this phenomenon, because news is updated continuallyto let people keep reading and games display the “play again”option immediately to let people replay once they are finished. People can hardly control themselves and stop doing these things when they are using the internet. In another words, a job is supposed to finish in an hour, but some of people will finish it by two or more hours with the internet. A study from the Young Diagnostic Questionnaire (YDQ) shows how many hours people with Internet addiction spend on the Internet. In the study, thirty-two freshman and sophomore students were involved. Half of them suffered from IAD (mean age = 19.4±3.1 years, education 13.4±2.5 years) while the other half of students are healthy (mean age = 19.5±2.8 years, education 13.3±2.0 years) with no personal or family history of psychiatric disorders. The conclusion from above study is supported by a Netherlands study (Daria J. Kuss, Antonius J. van Rooij, Gillian W. Shorter, Mark D. Griffiths, & D. van de Mheen, 2011). They were asked to finish a questionnaire contained eight yes-no questions criteria. Individuals who answered five or more “yes” to the eight questions were considered addicted. The researcher then investigated their life-style. They found that when people get addicted to the internet, they lose control of the time spent on the internet. Addicted persons spend multiplied hours on the internet than non-addicted persons. People with IAD spent 10.2±2.6 hours each day on online gaming and 6.3±0.5 days on the Internet per week, which has already occupied almost every minute of their waking hours. Meanwhile, the excessive use of Internet affects their mental situations. Addicted people felt they have more anxiety and depression, they measure higher on anxiety and depression scales which is proportional to their time spend on the Internet.
The online information is too free for people to acquire. People could hardly control themselvesto read the unhealthy information for instance, gambling and sexual websites, and those recognize fake advertisements. Once people get some profits, they will get addiction on that thing easily. Internet addiction currently affects not just the mental health of an Individual, but also that of an entire coming generation by negatively affecting the children. Moreover, those plenty of violent images and fake that information influence children’s behavior, and this is even harder for children to recognize whether it is an unhealthy message or not. In daily life, children need a great amount of human interaction and depend on their parent children relations to develop properly in their early years. In fact, according to the World Health Organization (2004), “inadequate and inappropriate social experiences in the early environment can compromise higher level neural systems that provide information needed to bond, imitate, and generally respond in socially appropriate ways”. However, as more and more children start becoming addicted to the internet, they start to lose out on this important stage of development.#p#分頁標題#e#
Nowadays, the number of children and teenagers who do not know how to writing and spell some simple vocabularies are increasing sharply, and this even occurs a lot on adults. However, it did not have this kind of situation when people were recording message or writing letters by using pencil and paper. Because of the decline in social interaction resulting from internet addiction, studies have found that the increasing trend of online videos is negatively affecting the language development of children. This is the best time for people to learn a language fast and accurately as a child. Most notably, after analyzing children who had been regular viewers of Baby Einstein, and those who had not, “the children addicted to the show actually knew fewer words than those without, once they entered preschool.” (Zimmerman and Dr. Christakis, 2007). The study showed that because of an increasingly reliability of internet content to replace actual interaction between people, children were actually left behind in this aspect of their development. They need an actual social life with those around them to develop these skills, which is not something someone from the distance on a video can teach them.
However, internet addiction affects not only children and their social lives, but also adults. Internet has provided platform for connecting people, especially beloved ones who are far away. However, the increasing usage of internet creates problems in creating and maintaining interpersonal relations. On one hand, it may bring distant people closer together but on the other hand it creates distance in the people that are already close around. “There is a negative relationship between internet addiction and sociability while a positive relation between internet addiction and distrust and disobedience.” according to Journal of Family Therapy, (Park, Kim, and Lee, 2014).Take, for instance, excessive use of social media sites and networks. People are spending more time texting, emailing, tweeting, uploading statuses, sharing pictures and commenting on each other’s posts than they are with people around them. According to an online survey of 184 internet users, people who spent more time on social networking sites were likely to be less involved in their real life communities (Kuss and Griffiths, 2011).
Meanwhile, the extra time spent on internet takes away from the time that could have been spent with family and friends, and as a result it makes relationships weaker. Nowadays, it is becoming common to see people surfing the web, socializing or video gaming while their family and friends are talking to them; these actions can be damaging as well as frustrating to the relationships and the overuse of internet gives rise to interpersonal relation problems, as advance research suggests (Park et al., 2014).
People need to avoid the internet addiction happens on ourselves, there are several suggestions that people may take:Keep a time log, tracking your time and activities on internet, and slowly limit your online activities and the time spent. Avoid allowing young children to watch online videos, especially without sitting and interacting with them; do not let online videos play in the backgrounds when everyone is busy with other things, especially when there are young children around. (Buckingham, D. 2008)#p#分頁標題#e#
We believe by following the above recommendations, the rate of Internet addiction can be decreased and it consequences lessened until further research can be completed on this growing problem.
References
Mental health: A state of well-being. (2014, August 1). Retrieved November 01, 2015, from
http://www.who.int/features/factfiles/mental_health/en/
Kuss, D. J., & Griffiths, M. D. (2014). Online social networking and addiction--a review of the
psychological literature.International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 8(9), 3528-3552. doi:10.3390/ijerph8093528
The importance of caregiver-child interaction for the survival and healthy development of
young children. (2004). World Health Organization. Retrieved October 11, 2015, from http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/2004/924159134X.pdf
Zimmerman, F., & Christakis, D. (2007). Associations between Media Viewing and Language
Development in Children (Vol. 151, pp. 364-368). Seattle, WA.
Park, T. Y., Kim, S., & Lee, J. (2014). Family therapy for an Internet‐addicted young adult with
interpersonalproblems.Journal of Family Therapy, 36(4), 394-419. doi:10.1111/1467-6427.12060
Kuss, D., & Griffiths, M. (2011, August 29). Online Social Networking and Addiction—A Review
of the Psychological Literature. Retrieved November 1, 2015, from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3194102
Buckingham, D. (2008). Youth, identity, and digital media. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
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