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Longitudinal relationship between problematic internet use with loneliness during and after COVID-19 social restrictions

Phil Reed Orcid Logo, Angharad Davies Orcid Logo, Katie Evans, Lisa A. Osborne

Psychiatry Research, Volume: 323, Start page: 115148

Swansea University Authors: Phil Reed Orcid Logo, Angharad Davies Orcid Logo

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DOI (Published version): 10.1016/j.psychres.2023.115148

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Two, three-month long longitudinal studies examined the temporal relationships between problematic internet use (PIU), internet usage, and loneliness ratings, during and after lockdown restrictions. Experiment 1 examined 32, 18-51 year old participants, over a three-month period of lockdown restrict...

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ISSN: 0165-1781
Published: Elsevier BV 2023
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title_short Longitudinal relationship between problematic internet use with loneliness during and after COVID-19 social restrictions
title_full Longitudinal relationship between problematic internet use with loneliness during and after COVID-19 social restrictions
title_fullStr Longitudinal relationship between problematic internet use with loneliness during and after COVID-19 social restrictions
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description Two, three-month long longitudinal studies examined the temporal relationships between problematic internet use (PIU), internet usage, and loneliness ratings, during and after lockdown restrictions. Experiment 1 examined 32, 18-51 year old participants, over a three-month period of lockdown restrictions. Experiment 2 studied 41, 18-51 year old participants, over a three-month period following the lifting of lockdown restrictions. Participants completed the internet addiction test, UCLA loneliness scale, and answered questioned about their online usage, at two time points. All cross-sectional analyses revealed a positive relationship between PIU and loneliness. However, there was no association between online use and loneliness. Longitudinal relationships between PIU and loneliness differed during and after lockdown restrictions. During a period of lockdown, there were both positive associations between earlier PIU and subsequent loneliness, and between earlier loneliness and subsequent PIU. However, following the easing of lockdown restrictions, only the temporal relationship between earlier internet addiction and later loneliness was significant.
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