PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF CYBER-COMMUNICATION ADDICTION
PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF CYBER-COMMUNICATION ADDICTION

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the main approaches to the study of the problem of cyber-commu-nication addiction in both domestic and foreign psychology. It has been demonstrated that the problem of psychological predisposition has not been studied in foreign psychol-ogy. The research has mainly focused on various aspects of the study of addiction, which are conducted in the main directions as an individual variable - cognitive, motivational, emotional and behavioral characteristics of the dependent personality and as a set of behavioral features. The problem of addictive personality is represented in a number of areas: Internet addiction, network gambling and other numerous varieties of addiction. Addiction is basically seen as a consequence of interpersonal transactions within social groups that create the effect of "social dependence"; dependence as a set of behavioral features. In Ukrainian psychological science, in a broad sense, addiction is seen as a specific way of thinking, perception and interpretation, of feeling and the outside world. The main features of online addictions are: obsessive thinking about working at a com-puter (games, programming or other activities); pathological commitment to online gam-bling, online auctions or virtual purchases, addiciton to the social use of the Internet (chat rooms, group games and teleconferencing), etc.

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