Indicators of the psycho-emotional status of adolescents khakassia with different online behavior

Abstract

Excessive use of the Internet in adolescents is often accompanied by a violation of their psychoemotional state, often in combination with other comorbid psychosomatic disorders and a high risk of their transformation into chronic types of pathology, which indicates the relevance of this problem. The purpose of the study is to conduct a comparative analysis of the features of psycho-emotional characteristics of teenagers in Khakassia with different online behavior. Materials and methods. In the period from April to October 2021, random samples of students from 3 schools in the city of Abakan were examined in the amount of 393 people (46.3% boys and 53.7% girls) aged 12-18 years (average age 14.5±1, 3). The type of online behavior was verified by the Chen Internet Addiction Scale (CIAS) by the value of the total CIAS score. The level of distress, depression, anxiety and somatization was determined according to the 4DSQ questionnaire, personal and reactive anxiety — according to the questionnaire of Ch.D. Spielberger — Yu.L. Khanin. The indicators were analyzed in 3 groups of adolescents: with adaptive Internet use (AIU), non-adaptive Internet use (NIU) and pathological Internet use (РIU). The data were processed in the program «Statistica 12».Results. According to the study, it was found that AIU is typical for 53.2% of adolescents in Abakan, NIU — for 32.8% and Internet addict (РIU) — for 14.0%. The structure of psycho-emotional status disorders includes the presence of low levels of distress (76.8%), depression (75.8%), anxiety (85.2%) and somatization (81.7%) in the examined adolescents; moderately elevated levels of distress (16.0%), depression (12.5%), anxiety (6.9%) and somatization (16.0%); high levels of distress (7.1%), depression (11.7%), anxiety (7.9%) and somatization (2.3%). Psycho-emotional state disorders of adolescents are associated with the peculiarities of their online behavior. PIU and NIU are associated with a higher incidence of high levels of distress, depression, anxiety and somatization, a higher level of personal and reactive anxiety. Conclusion. Assessing the prospects for using the obtained results, we came to the conclusion that it is expedient to assess the psycho-emotional state and correct its disorders in adolescents with maladaptive network behavior in order to reduce the risk of developing psychosomatic disorders in this group.

Keywords

• teenagers
• online behavior
• distress
• depression
• anxiety
• somatization
• anxiety