The influence of internet addiction on children's mental health and its countermeasures.
Starting with the characteristics of Internet addiction and its negative impact on children, this paper analyzes the causes of children's Internet addiction and puts forward the prevention and treatment methods of Internet addiction.
Keywords internet addiction; Children; Influence; Coping strategy
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With the rapid development of Internet in China, the number of Internet users in China is accelerating. With its unique advantages, the network has built a beautiful landscape of science, technology, culture and education in the new century, which has been integrated into people's unavoidable social life. The Internet has created great value for the society and has increasingly become an important part of children's daily work, study and spiritual life.
First, the characteristics of the impact of Internet addiction on children
With the rapid development of Internet in China, the number of Internet users in China is accelerating. With its unique advantages, the network has built a beautiful landscape of science, technology, culture and education in the new century, which has been integrated into people's unavoidable social life. The Internet has created great value for the society and has increasingly become an important part of children's daily work, study and spiritual life. Behind its extensive positive effects, there are also traps that make people mentally degenerate. These network traps are Internet addiction, which has a huge reaction and directly harms the healthy development of society and children.
Internet addiction refers to a group of syndromes caused by neuroendocrine disorders, with mental symptoms, physical symptoms, psychological disorders and personality changes as the main clinical manifestations, resulting in damage to social functions and activities. It is extremely harmful to society and family. With the popularization of Internet technology in the world and the daily application of the Internet, addiction caused by internet addiction has become a new psychological problem in modern society. This unconscious compulsion is called. Internet addiction syndrome? , sometimes called. Internet addiction? Or? Internet addiction? Simply put, it is the excessive infatuation with the content and form based on the network, which goes beyond the general scale and then affects the normal state of life and study. It is a new type of mental disorder, which is mainly manifested in that the network operation time is out of control, and with the increase of interest, it is difficult to extricate oneself and indulge in the network world, thus ignoring the existence of real life or being extremely dissatisfied with it. At first, it was only mental dependence, but later it developed into physical dependence, which manifested as depression, dizziness, shaking hands, fatigue, loss of appetite and other adverse symptoms.
Although scholars at home and abroad have different opinions on the determination of mental health standards, there are still similarities, namely, harmonious interpersonal relationship, self-acceptance and identity, positive and stable emotional state, effective self-control ability, self-recovery ability of psychological trauma, and moderate behavior in line with social reality. Combined with the above standards, the manifestations of internet addiction disorder are analyzed, and it is found that they are beyond the scope of various standards to some extent: they are aware of the harm of unrestrained internet access, but they can't control their behavior; Oversatisfied with the virtual space and alienated from the real society; Extreme emotional state, excessive excitement when surfing the internet, and persistent depression after offline. In addition, it also indirectly reflects the negative self-evaluation and uncertain life goals. Internet addicts have gone beyond the general scale of normal people in behavior, emotion and ideology, and developed into a deformed abnormal group that is divorced from the real world and pursues pleasure. Internet addiction exists in all kinds of people, especially children.
Internet addiction can also lead to children's weariness of learning, which is the most common and dangerous problem in children's psychological barriers to learning and one of the most common psychological diseases of children. From the psychological point of view, weariness of learning refers to the behavioral response mode of students' negative attitude towards learning activities, which is mainly manifested in students' biased understanding of learning, negative attitude towards learning emotionally and active withdrawal from learning. Being tired of learning is very harmful to children's physical and mental health.
Second, the diagnostic criteria and clinical manifestations of Internet addiction disorder
1. The Internet has occupied the patient's body and mind;
2. Only by constantly increasing the time and investment on the Internet can we be satisfied, thus making the time on the Internet longer than the scheduled time;
3. Can't control the impulse to surf the Internet;
4. Whenever the Internet line is cut off or the Internet cannot be accessed for other reasons, you will feel restless or depressed;
5. surfing the internet is the only way to relieve pain;
6. Conceal the degree of infatuation with the Internet from family members or relatives;
7. Obsessed with surfing the Internet, facing the danger of dropping out of school, losing jobs or losing friends;
8. I regret that I invested a lot of money, time and energy, but I still can't help but go online the next day;
9. Long-term infatuation with the Internet leads to physical symptoms such as sleep disorder, burnout, trembling, decreased vision, headache, dizziness and loss of appetite.
Performance:
1. network dependence: escape from the real life environment by surfing in virtual space without increasing online time;
2. Mental symptoms: apathy and abnormal behavior.
3. Physical symptoms: unconscious keyboard tapping, burnout, trembling, decreased vision, etc.
Third, the negative impact of Internet addiction on children.
Internet addiction has indeed caused great obstacles to children's self-development, and at the same time deprived children of the realistic conditions necessary for self-development. Internet addiction children can't strike a balance between instinctive desire impulse and realistic social constraints and moral norms, which affects the harmony and unity of their personality structure; Due to the lack of realistic reference conditions, self-identity appears role confusion, which leads to personality development obstacles and various psychological problems. Internet is characterized by virtuality, concealment and openness. Virtuality shows that there is a gap between the online world and the real world, concealment makes the participants' behavior not supervised by others, and openness means that anyone has the opportunity to face all the contents of the online world and participate in all possible activities. However, compared with the online world, the real society has the characteristics of authenticity, limitation and pertinence. The task of children is to move from childhood to adult society. He must learn to abide by certain social norms and internalize related moral concepts. Due to the limitation of their own ability to bear and accept, society usually has certain restrictions on children, which makes up for the lack of children's own defense to some extent. But in the online world, these guarantees are lost. In an infinitely attractive world, their immature self-control is difficult to resist the invasion of bad factors in the network world. Children with internet addiction have different identities in the online world and the real world, and their inner feelings are also different. It is difficult for children who rely heavily on the internet for fun to adapt to the real society.
At the same time, the former requires children to have enough self-monitoring ability, self-restraint and restriction to prevent immoral behavior. Such self-control ability is not only beneficial to children's social acceptance, but also beneficial to children's social acceptance. It can prevent self from being condemned for violating morality, and then complete the unity and harmony of internal values. However, due to the lack of strong control over the network, children may indulge themselves and do whatever they want because of the lack of necessary monitoring system, so that the internalization of self-morality can not be successfully completed, leaving future troubles for future behavioral obstacles. The latter requires children not only to be aware of the physical differences between men and women, but also to have cultural differences. Social traditions have different expectations for gender roles of men and women. In childhood, when a boy shows too much girl tendency, society will not interfere with him more, but after adolescence, social customs will exert strong pressure on people with inconsistent gender roles. Primary and middle school students who are curious about the opposite sex will try to experience the role with the opposite sex identity in online communication. Long-term role confusion will make them confused in the appropriate development period of gender roles, which will affect the healthy development of self-gender awareness.
Fourth, the prevention and treatment of Internet addiction among primary and secondary school students.
While the network brings people novelty and happiness, it also often brings people pain and sinking. In a sense, the advantages of the network are also the problem. In the virtual space of the network, the richness of information leads to thinking? Lazy? The extension of communication intensifies the emotional confusion in the real society, and the full display of personality and creativity is also mixed with the loss of sense of responsibility and the enhancement of desire to destroy. People's infatuation with the internet has also produced a series of psychological diseases. Internet addiction? Interpersonal relationship disorder and personality disorder (aggressive personality, multiple personality disorder), and the openness and freedom of the network have also caused problems such as network security, network virus, network pornography and network hackers. Ruthless network? A double-edged sword? Write us such a paradox:? The internet is a good space for people to develop freely, but the ideal place for people to show their essence has become the darkest corner of society that is hard to punish? . Network mental health education must aim at these psychological problems brought by the network, educate primary and secondary school students to correctly distinguish the similarities and differences between the virtual society in the network and the real society in reality, and don't bring the way of thinking and living habits in the virtual society into the real world at random. Network mental health education should let children go back offline from the internet. Encourage and guide children to participate in positive and meaningful practical activities, experience the tangible world, feel and realize the real existence of themselves and others, and form social communication ability to develop things and live together. Can it be true? People? Carry out social practice activities as a teacher, let teaching come into life and enhance its practicality? . Otherwise, any network-based mental health education is harmful to people, such as? Internet addiction? Patients with online mental illness like this can only talk about it at present? Internet addiction syndrome? At present, there is no effective treatment. From the theory and practice of treating other addictive behaviors, psychotherapy is one of the more effective techniques, among which psychoanalysis, cognitive therapy, family therapy and behavioral therapy are the most commonly used, and behavioral therapy is the most used and effective method. Behavioral therapy believes that addiction behavior is because patients feel pleasure in the long-term behavior process, and this feeling is used as a reinforcement to fix their behavior. So, this is an acquired behavior. Since it can be obtained by strengthening, it can also be dissipated by strengthening. In behavioral therapy, aversion therapy, relaxation techniques and systematic desensitization are commonly used and effective means to treat addictive behavior. The formation mechanism of Internet addiction, like other addictive behaviors (such as alcoholism, smoking and drug addiction), is due to the generation of pleasure, which forms a stable behavior pattern under the continuous strengthening of stimulation (network). Therefore, behavioral therapy should focus on eliminating the pleasure brought by surfing the Internet and the psychological pressure brought by not surfing the Internet.
Taking aversion therapy in behavioral therapy as an example, this paper simulates the psychotherapy of internet addiction from theory and treatment technology. Clinically, aversion therapy is to combine bad behavior with the stimulation that causes physical pain, so that patients can feel the pain reaction of the body while having bad behavior, so that patients will hate bad behavior and gradually fade away.
The stimulation of physical pain response can be caused by imagination, drugs and other chemical means or physical stimulation such as electric shock and elastic rubber band. For example, let internet addicts close their eyes, imagine the bad symptoms such as depression, dizziness, shaking hands, fatigue, loss of appetite and so on caused by excessive internet access, as well as the blame of parents and teachers, falling grades or even dropping out of school, which makes them feel strongly pain. At the same time, under the guidance of a doctor, taking emetic will cause nausea and vomiting. Painful symptoms such as shortness of breath. After a period of treatment, when the painful experience and online behavior establish a conditioned reflex to replace the pleasure brought by online, the internet addiction behavior will be eliminated. However, it is necessary to cooperate with other therapies, such as behavioral modeling, to consolidate the therapeutic effect until the internet addiction behavior is completely quit.
In addition, psychologists also put forward the following suggestions to netizens and their families: strictly control the use time of the Internet, with a maximum of 8 hours a day; Set aside 2-3 hours every day to communicate with colleagues and family members; Once found? Network syndrome? When various symptoms appear, family members should force patients to limit the time of using the Internet and seek relevant treatment in time.
Concluding remarks
The concept of Internet addiction has also been questioned by many scholars. Some opponents think? Addiction? This term refers to the body's psychological and physiological dependence on certain drugs, which are used to ingest certain chemicals or anesthetics, such as drug abuse. Internet users' infatuation with the Internet is different from their dependence on chemicals. Others think that Internet addiction is an exaggeration by psychologists and researchers. They think that people spend a lot of time surfing the Internet as an addiction. However, some people also spend a lot of time reading, watching TV and working, thus neglecting family, friendship and social activities, but no one calls these behaviors addiction. ? No matter how the academic circles argue, the behavior of psychological and social function damage caused by excessive use of the internet has long existed, which seriously affects the normal study, work and life of netizens, and even affects the survival and development of the whole family and even the whole society.
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