@inbook{10.7249/j.ctt14bs4q1.10, ISBN = {9780833088246}, URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7249/j.ctt14bs4q1.10}, abstract = {As ownership of personal computers began to grow during the 1980s, researchers began to explore anecdotal accounts and media stories describing individuals as “addicted” to their computers in the way that others are addicted to drugs (Shotten, 1989, 1991). Reports of similar behaviors related to online computer activities emerged just as the Internet began its dramatic expansion in the mid-1990s. Problematic Internet Use (PIU), the most general term applied to these cases, was first described in the scientific literature in the 1990s (Griffiths, 1996; Young, 1998). Since that time, concern with PIU has grown as the Internet has come to}, bookauthor = {Joshua Breslau and Eyal Aharoni and Eric R. Pedersen and Laura L. Miller}, booktitle = {A Review of Research on Problematic Internet Use and Well-Being: With Recommendations for the U.S. Air Force}, pages = {3--12}, publisher = {RAND Corporation}, title = {Understanding the Emerging Science of PIU}, year = {2015} }