Table 1.
The characteristics of Problematic Internet Use Questionnaire Short Form-6.
| Factors | Items | Respond (%) | Mean | SD | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Never | Rarely | Sometime | Often | Always | ||||
| Obsession | How often do you feel tense, irritated, or stressed if you cannot use the Internet for as long as you want to? | 36.3 | 32.1 | 23.0 | 5.9 | 2.8 | 2.1 | 1.0 |
| How often does it happen to you that you feel depressed, moody, or nervous when you are not on the Internet and these feelings stop once you are back online? | 27.8 | 20.0 | 23.2 | 12.2 | 16.8 | 2.7 | 1.4 | |
| Neglect | How often do you spend time online when you’d rather sleep? | 26.1 | 36.2 | 28.9 | 8.5 | 0.3 | 2.2 | 0.9 |
| How often do people in your life complain about spending excessive time on internet use? | 32.4 | 24.0 | 22.8 | 12.3 | 8.6 | 2.4 | 1.3 | |
| Control disorder | How often does it happen to you that you wish to decrease the amount of time spent online but you do not succeed? | 36.5 | 27.3 | 15.6 | 13.4 | 7.2 | 2.3 | 1.3 |
| How often do you try to conceal the amount of time spent online? | 45.3 | 21.1 | 13.1 | 10.4 | 10.2 | 2.2 | 1.4 | |