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. 2012 Dec 22;12:1106. doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-12-1106

Table 2.

Impacts of adolescent personal factors on adolescent internet addiction by logistic regression analysisa,b

Risk Factors Coefficient (Standard Error) Odds Ratio 95%Confidence Interval p-value
Gender
 Female (ref.)
1.0
1.0
 
 
 Male
0.26(0.12)
1.29
1.02-1.64
0.0361
Adolescent monthly money spending levels (RMB / month)
 <100 (ref.)
1.0
1.0
 
 
 ≥300
0.41(0.16)
1.51
1.11-2.05
0.0092
 100~299
0.51(0.13)
1.66
1.29-2.14
<0.0001
Academic achievements
 Very good (ref.)
1.0
1.0
 
 
 Very & relatively bad
1.57(0.33)
4.79
2.51-9.13
<0.0001
 General
0.87(0.31)
2.38
1.29-4.41
0.0057
 Relative good
0.52(0.33)
1.68
0.88-3.20
0.1186
Total hours online for a whole week (hours /month)
 <7 (ref.)
1.0
1.0
 
 
 >28
1.45(0.17)
4.28
3.06-5.99
<0.0001
 21 ~28
1.23(0.21)
3.41
2.26-5.15
<0.0001
 14 ~21
0.96(0.19)
2.61
1.81-3.77
<0.0001
 7~14
0.89(0.15)
2.44
1.81-3.29
<0.0001
Main Purpose of using internet
 Academic learning (ref.)
1.0
1.0
 
 
 Playing game
1.94(0.34)
6.98
3.59-13.58
<.0.0001
 Real-time chatting
0.97(0.36)
2.64
1.30-5.38
0.0073
 Browsing news or e-mails only 0.17(0.40) 1.19 0.55-2.60 0.6625

a This logistic regression model was fit to model the possibility of adolescent having internet addiction, internet addiction was defined as total score ≥ 163.

b Adolescent age, gender, grade, school types, adolescent academic achievement, adolescent monthly spending levels, internet-use time, and the main purposes and places of adolescent internet use were adjusted in the models.