Computer Addiction.

Computer Addiction: How wide spread is the problem? Addictions can be healthy, unhealthy, or a mixture of both. If you are fascinated by a hobby, feel devoted to it, would like to spend as much time as possible pursuing it - this could be an outlet for learning, creativity, and self-expression. Even in some unhealthy addictions you can find these positive features embedded within (and thus maintaining) the problem. But in truly pathological addictions, the …

…a possible 32 on the IRABC (SD=5.83). Scores ranged from a low of 0 (one case) to a high of 30 (one case). The overall distribution has a slight but significant positive skew (skewness=.505, Z= 2.64, p<.01) and appears almost bimodal with a cutoff score of 20 differentiating the two groups. Psychometric analysis of the IRABC shows that is has respectable internal consistency (alpha=.85). All 32 items correlated moderately with total score, ranging from .20 to .57 with an average correlation of .42.