Internet Addiction of Young Greek Adults: Psychological Aspects and Information Privacy

Abstract.

The main goal of this study is to examine the Internet addiction status of Greek young adults, aged from 18 to 25, using Young’s Internet Addiction Test (IAT) and self-administered questionnaires. In addition this paper assesses the psychological traits of addicted persons per addiction category, using the big five factor model tool to study the user's personality and analyze the components that lead a person to become Internet addicted. Our results show that in most of the addiction levels the majority of people are women except of in the moderate level. Furthermore, we found an association between addicted people and the five factors from the Big Five Factor Model; i.e., extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism, openness to experience. Moreover, this paper discusses information privacy and security issues related to Internet Addiction.

Keywords: Internet addiction; Psychological factors; Big Five Factor model; information security policies;

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