A cognitive-behavioural model of pathological Internet use

R. A. Davis, Psychology Department, York University, Canada. A cognitive-behavioural model of pathological Internet use (2001)
Second Edition
pp 1-7

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Accessed: 09/10/07

The article discusses how users of the internet can become addicted to it and specifically focuses on the pathological implications of internet use. It discusses what type of people are drawn to becoming a Pathological Internet Users (PIU) and states the downward loop in which these users shut out the real world in favour of the virtual one.

I chose this article hoping that it could help shed some light on internet games or in relation to console internet applications e.g. Xbox Live. I felt that at the beginning of the article the points made were interesting and I made a large amount of notes on them, although by the end of the article the relevance to our work had dropped.