CYBER PATHOLOGY: RESULTS OF THE STUDY AND WAYS OF PREVENTION

Abstract

The article discusses the main reasons and mechanisms of developing various types of dependence on cyber-pathology. The classification of psychopathological symptoms and syndromes is described, as well as the pathogenesis of addiction. Studying individual-personal peculiarities of students who have signs of the Internet-addiction, the author singles out those which characterize young people’s predisposition to form dependences (cyber-pathology). Approaches to prevention of cyber-pathology and the Internet- addiction development are offered, as well as the psychotherapy of their symptoms expression.

Keywords

• cyber-pathology
• computer addiction
• the Internet-addiction
• game dependence
• dependence on the smartphone