Social Media Addiction: Effects on Mental Well-being By Wesley Poore wpoore@unomaha.edu The author is an undergraduate in the School of Communication‚ University of Nebraska at Omaha. This paper was written for a Social Media Metrics course in Spring‚ 2013. Social Media Addiction: Effects on Mental Well-being This paper will focus on Internet addiction and the potential psychological issues it can create for college students. The Internet is changing the way we live but not
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The American Psychiatric Association refers to problem gambling as pathological gambling. There are generally speaking two different types of problem gamblers; action problem gamblers and escape problem gamblers. Gambling addiction is just as valid of an illness as addiction to alcohol or drugs. Its prevalence is linked directly to the ease of access of gambling in our society. However‚ just like drugs and alcohol‚ only a small percentage of the population is prone to this illness. Gambling addicts
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Heidi A. Wallace Chris Shreve Locus of Control PSY/285 9/8/2014 Locus of control is what people perceive what their everyday outcomes will be. If a person has an internal locus then‚ they believe that they are in control of themselves and the influence of the world around them. A person with an external locus feels as though they cannot control the things that happen to them and the world around them. I‚ myself‚ have an internal locus because I believe that my actions control my life. If
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The following definitions apply to the current research. Addiction. Addiction is doing an action repeatedly. It has negative consequences‚ is long lasting‚ and is considered a brain disease that effects the brain (NIDA‚ 2014). Asthma. A condition in which one has trouble breathing because of a narrowed airway. It is classified as a lung disease and has symptoms such as shortness of breath and coughing (National Institute of Health‚ 2014). Chronic Pain. Chronic pain is pain that is long term
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SHOPPING ADDICTION Name: Course details: Date: Shopping addiction is a behavioral addiction often referred to as `shopoholism` and also known as oniomania or compulsive shopping. This condition was identified in the nineteenth century and marked a psychiatric disorder in the twentieth century. [1]It normally begins in the early adulthood and is experienced by teenagers in their late teens .it mostly affects females as compared to males. Like any other
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Drug Addiction Among Young People Many young people today get addicted to drugs – they become dependant on various types of mind-altering or stimulating medicines or illegal ones. Addiction often comes hand-in-hand with narcotic effects‚ whether they are strong or light. It is only a question of time when you get addicted. You gradually become destroyed on all the levels of your health. And this is sad. It turns out to be sadder when you come to know that typical age range of drug addicts is
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The film in the poster‚ released in 2016‚ is called Song of the Phoenix. And the social context in this poster is in modern China where tremendous changes have taken place in all aspects‚ including folk arts. Significantly‚ plenty of Chinese folk arts have been qualified to appear on the Intangible Cultural Heritages list because of their high artistic standards‚ long histories‚ and irresistible cultural influences. However‚ the survival conditions of these ancient folk arts in modern Chinese society
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Webster’s dictionary defines addiction as a habitual psychological and physiological dependence on a substance or practice beyond one’s voluntary control. The essence of all addiction is the addicts’ experience of powerlessness over a compulsive behavior‚ resulting in their lives becoming unmanageable. The addict is out of control and experiences tremendous shame‚ pain and self-loathing. The addict may wish to stop --- yet repeatedly fails to do so. In this sense‚ there are many things that can
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UNIVERSIDAD LATINA DE COSTA RICA. SEDE DE GUÁPILES. ELOCUTION AND COMPOSITION II. WRITTEN REPORT. INTERNET ADDICTION. TEACHER´S NAME: ROGER A. FRANCIS ALVARADO. STUDENT´S NAMES: JOSELYN ARLETT BUSTOS VARGAS. ARMANDO BELLO. SATURDAY‚ NOVEMBER 29TH‚ 2014. INDEX Content Page Abstract………………………………………………………………………………... Introduction……………………….…………………………………………………... Terminal and Enabling Objectives…………………………………………………………............................. Theoretical Framework…………………………………………………………
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Gambling Addiction Gambling affects the person doing it and anyone who is close to them. Through personal experience getting hooked on gambling is mainly from the action and thrill of everything associated with gambling. When gambling they are part of the action and not just watching people play a game for money. If one is truly a pathological gambler‚ just like lying they cannot stop unless they are helped. When gambling it is very difficult to come to the realization that one is addicted. They
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