A conceptual and methodological critique of internet addiction research: Towards a model of compensatory internet use

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Highlights：

• Internet addiction research is suffering from a lack of progress and clear results.

• Paper suggests investigating motivations in conjunction with psychosocial problems.

• Paper presents a theory of compensatory internet use to further theoretical development.

摘要

•Internet addiction research is suffering from a lack of progress and clear results.•Paper suggests investigating motivations in conjunction with psychosocial problems.•Paper presents a theory of compensatory internet use to further theoretical development.

论文关键词：Internet addiction,Compulsive internet use,Problematic internet use,Compensatory internet use,Motivations for internet use

论文评审过程：Available online 23 November 2013.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2013.10.059