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Causes of formation, development and treatment of netholism in adolescents
Voborská, Diana ; Váchová, Alena (advisor) ; Syřiště, Ivo (referee)
The thesis is focused on new phenomenon called "internet addiction disorder". The thesis is focused on the origins and development of this addiction of children during growing up. It is also focused on prevention and possibilities of treatment. In the introduction is described the history of internet, its characteristics and chosen aspects. It is then followed by the terms of virtual environment and what it can provide for its user. The next chapter is focused on the problematics of internet addiction disorder. This part also points out the main effects, which are described in examples including the causes and consequences of this addiction influencing young people's lives. Part of the thesis is focused on the whole age of growing up and young adulthood and the high risks of formatting this addiction in young age. Next part of the thesis is focused on prevention and its applicable methods, including modern approach to the treatment and successful methods of treating the addicted teenagers. The main goal of this thesis is to describe the risks of internet addiction disorder, which lead to formation of addictive behavior in teenagers, using specialized sources and literature. The research of the thesis is focused on the pointing out the risk factors, for example the daily time spent on internet and...
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Social Functioning of the Netholics
BEČVÁŘOVÁ, Pavlína
Professional literature terms addiction on the internet as a netholism. At the same time the netholism is ranked among the most often types of risky additional behaviour. Presented bachelor thesis is a probe into the life of young people which have certain problem in relation to using the internet. This problem affects unfavourable their behaviour in the free time, their relationship with close surrounding, it means with those people they are frequently in contact (family, friends, acquaintance, etc.). Bachelor thesis is typically divided into two parts: theoretical and practical. The theoretical part is engaged in the concept of social functioning and living situation of an individual. Also it describes how an addiction come into existence, how it is defined, for what is marked, divides the types of the addicts and introduce with the term of an addiction. Presents which modern communicational instruments netholics use at the same time and with which troubles they can meet during their using. At the end of the theoretical part there are presented various solves of an addictional problem with the internet recommended by the authors of the professional literature. The practical part is processed by the assistance of qualitative research strategy. In this place I have chosen the asking method and the technic of self-structure dialogue for gaining of material to next processing of datas. The analysis of interviews of five voluntary informants from 19 to 25 years is contained in this part. Their selection take place by the methods of snowball sampling, when I got contacts to next people, from the first addressing participants, which could fulfil conditions for my research. I sent the test of an internet addiction to potential netholics, and the addiction was confirmed or disproved with the aid of so called "The Chen internet addiction scale". I analysed datas by means of open coding, axial coding and selective coding. After that in discussion I answered to prepared research questions in advance. I have decided to make the thesis on theme "Social functioning of the netholics" out of the reason that I wanted to continue in graduate thesis from college institute where I dealt with the influence of (all) media on youth. I felt that it is necessary to aim only one medium and simultaneously explore his deeper influence to group which is close to me by its age: "the young adults". In this thesis I wanted to find out how internet influences young people in the context of their close social surrounding. The aim of work was to describe how the netholism subjectively changes social interactions and relationships. In the context of this aim it was made the main research question: "How an approach of the internet and his next excessive using influenced the life of informants in their social surrounding?" I answered this question by means of another next research questions: "What is the reason of their change according to the informants?" "How the internet influenced the leisure time activities at informants?" "How the internet influenced the relationships with friends and family?" Out of the results it follows that the netholics look support in social sphere on the internet (they have fear of a personal interaction, or they are solitary and this means of communication is more comfortable for them). Their behaviour point at their own weeknesses in interpersonal communication and interactions between them and their social surrounding. The replacing of personal communication by the written communication (chating) has the side effect that the certain group of people prefer shallow chating on the internet, and it with absolute foreign people, to interaction with close social surrounding. It can have consequence incomprehension and arguments between netholics and their immediate social surrounding.
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Internet Lifestyle. What Has Internet Given to Us and What Has Internet Taken from Us?
LIŠKOVÁ, Radka
The thesis deals with the phenomenon of the internet lifestyle. Theoretical volume of the work describes the lifestyle, all the psychological aspects of usage of the Internet. The advantages and disadvantages involved in using the Internet and statistical data regarding the usage of the Internet. The main aim of the thesis is to try to recognize inner experiences of the internet users and to understand this specific inner world. The questionnaire was done to map favourite activities used on the Internet. What motivates the Internet users and all the experiences connected with the Internet. How much are the users aware of the risks inflicted by the Internet. How it can influence the life and the relationship of respondents and the impact on their life throughout their life. To gather the data, for this survey, was applied the qualitative research method and the phenomenological access. The methodology triangulation techniques were emphasised. Among the respondents who were asked, were students of the South Bohemian University in České Budějovice. Two techniques were chosen which one of them was structured interview with open questions (2 interviews performed on 10 respondents) and a questionnaire with open questions (20 anonymous questionnaires). This was applied on chat servers. The result for this research shows that using the Internet is mainly the need to communicate and to gain information. Among the respondents? favourite activities were for example watching sitcoms or searching information. The emotions which users feel depend on the activity which they do. The positive ones are dominate to negative ones, but the frequency contradicts with the living emotions. The biggest influence of the Internet on respondents? life is to get information easily, simplified communication and the possibility to meet new people. The relationship which the respondents have towards the Internet is mostly stable. The biggest risk the respondents consider is using the Internet by small children, sharing which result in misuse of data, arranging meeting with strangers, above all on the ground of numerous occurrences of sexual aggressors etc. The cultural activities and prevention of the usage and all risks concerning the Internet should be more pursued in the future. In the short conclusion of the philosophical survey the question:"What we gain and lose because of the Internet?" The Internet provided us with the easy access to information, new ways how to meet other people, the knowledge, entertainment, etc. On the other hand it deprives us from spending free time, personal get - togetherness, motivation and loosing the childhood.
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Phenomenon of Netholism in Pupils of the Second Stage of Primary Schools in Příbram Area
JEČMENOVÁ, Michaela
My thesis deals with netholism, i.e. the Internet addiction. In my opinion, this is an up-to-date issue, often underestimated by children´s parents. The results of my research may serve as an information material to all professions working in contact with children. Important symptoms present in the Internet addicts, as well as the principles of the Internet safety and the parents´ supervision over children's activities on the Internet are mentioned. There is also the existence of considerable health risks related to computers. A large chapter is related to communication on the Internet. I have stated two main objectives of my diploma thesis. Objective 1: To survey activities of children on the Internet sites in dependence on their age. Objective 2: To determine the awareness of children about the risks arising from an excessive Internet use. (The excessive use of the Internet means a period longer than 3 hours a day.) To achieve the intended objectives and the hypotheses testing, an anonymous questionnaire, the method of quantitative research was used. The subject of the investigation was the issue of the use of the Internet by children attending the second stage of primary schools. There was diversity in the concept of questions. I believe I have managed to meet the both chosen objectives of my diploma thesis. The stated hypotheses have been disproved by the questionnaire survey. Hypothesis H1: Children attending the second stage of primary school spend more than half of their time communicating via social networking sites on the Internet, this has not been not confirmed. The survey has shown that almost always only 23% of the total 175 respondents communicate with friends or unknown persons via social networking sites. Hypothesis H2: Children attending the second stage of primary school are not sufficiently informed about the risks arising from the use of the Internet, this has not been confirmed. Only 12% of children think there are no risks arising from the use of the Internet. As a contribution of my diploma thesis in the health and social field may be regarded the recognition of "netholism" as another form of addiction.
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