Compulsive Internet and Prevalence Substance Use among Spanish Adolescents

Sonia Fernández-Aliseda, Angel Belzunegui-Eraso, Inma Pastor-Gosálbez and Francesc Valls-Fonayet
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Sonia Fernández-Aliseda: History Department (Sociology Section), Universitat Rovira i Virgili, 43002 Tarragona, Spain
Angel Belzunegui-Eraso: Medical Anthropology Research Centre, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, 43002 Tarragona, Spain
Inma Pastor-Gosálbez: History Department (Sociology Section), Universitat Rovira i Virgili, 43002 Tarragona, Spain
Francesc Valls-Fonayet: Faculty of Nursing, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, 43002 Tarragona, Spain

IJERPH, 2020, vol. 17, issue 23, 1-14

Abstract: This paper analyses compulsive Internet use among Spanish adolescents as measured by the Compulsive Internet Use Scale (CIUS) of the ESTUDES 2016 survey (national survey on drug use in secondary schools), which was recently added to the statistical programme of the Spanish National Plan on Drugs. We examined two subsamples of Spanish adolescents (those who suffer from compulsive Internet use and those who do not) while taking into account gender and age. Our general hypothesis was that adolescents who suffer from compulsive Internet use have a greater prevalence of alcohol, tobacco, cannabis, sedative, and new substance consumption as well as a greater prevalence of modes of consumption such as getting drunk, drinking with friends in public places ( botellón ), and binge drinking. While our results confirm these assumptions, they also suggest that gender and age play an ambivalent role in these associations.

Keywords: compulsive use of the internet; teenagers; substance use; addiction; alcohol; tobacco (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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