TY - GEN
T1 - Online peer support groups to combat digital addiction
T2 - World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies, WorldCIST 2019
AU - Aldhayan, Manal
AU - Cham, Sainabou
AU - Kostoulas, Theodoros
AU - Almourad, Mohamed Basel
AU - Ali, Raian
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019.
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - The obsessive usage of digital media may exhibit symptoms traditionally associated with behavioural addictions such as mood modification, salience, tolerance and conflict. The educational methods, interventions, and treatments available to prevent or control such a digital addiction are, currently, very limited. Digital Addiction (DA) is yet not formally recognised as a mental disorder by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Recently, in 2018, the World Health Organization recognised gaming disorder. Fortunately, the nature of digital media can also help the hosting of methods and mechanics to combat DA, e.g. in the monitoring of online usage and enabling individuals to stay in control of it. One of the techniques proposed in the literature is Online Peer Groups platforms, towards allowing people to form a group and provide peer support to control and regulate their usage, collectively. Online peer support groups are meant to provide peer support, counselling, motivational and learning environment, and ambivalence reduction through sharing and hope installation. However, there is a lack of research about the factors influencing people with DA to accept or reject online peer support groups. In this work, we conduct user studies and explore the acceptance and rejection factors to join and participate in such DA regulation and relapse prevention method. This will help to design and introduce the method and increase its adoption.
AB - The obsessive usage of digital media may exhibit symptoms traditionally associated with behavioural addictions such as mood modification, salience, tolerance and conflict. The educational methods, interventions, and treatments available to prevent or control such a digital addiction are, currently, very limited. Digital Addiction (DA) is yet not formally recognised as a mental disorder by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Recently, in 2018, the World Health Organization recognised gaming disorder. Fortunately, the nature of digital media can also help the hosting of methods and mechanics to combat DA, e.g. in the monitoring of online usage and enabling individuals to stay in control of it. One of the techniques proposed in the literature is Online Peer Groups platforms, towards allowing people to form a group and provide peer support to control and regulate their usage, collectively. Online peer support groups are meant to provide peer support, counselling, motivational and learning environment, and ambivalence reduction through sharing and hope installation. However, there is a lack of research about the factors influencing people with DA to accept or reject online peer support groups. In this work, we conduct user studies and explore the acceptance and rejection factors to join and participate in such DA regulation and relapse prevention method. This will help to design and introduce the method and increase its adoption.
KW - Behavioural change
KW - Digital addiction
KW - Online peer groups
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85065103381&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-16187-3_14
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-16187-3_14
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85065103381
SN - 9783030161866
T3 - Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
SP - 139
EP - 150
BT - New Knowledge in Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 3
A2 - Adeli, Hojjat
A2 - Costanzo, Sandra
A2 - Reis, Luís Paulo
A2 - Rocha, Álvaro
PB - Springer Verlag
Y2 - 16 April 2019 through 19 April 2019
ER -