Impulse Control and Internet Addiction Disorder Among Indian Business Professionals

Journal of Organizational Culture, Communications & Conflict, Special Issue, Forthcoming

18 Pages Posted: 12 May 2016 Last revised: 1 Jul 2019

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Reginald Bell

Prairie View A&M University

Dibyendu Choudhury

National Institute for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (NIMSME)

Wally Guyot

Fort Hays State University

Robert Meier

Fort Hays State University

Date Written: May 3, 2016

Abstract

We compared 94 female and 218 male Indian business professionals’ self-reporting their usage of Orkut, Facebook, Google, Twitter, and LinkedIn as ways they search the Internet, engage in social interaction on the world wide web commonly referred to as Web 2.0. Our Chi-square tests revealed differences between male and female professionals on three levels of income: ≤ $10K, $11-20K, and ≥$21K. A 20-items instrument adapted from Dr. Kimberly Young’s Internet Addiction Test (Young, 1996) was used to measure Internet Addiction Disorder (IAD). We used factorial Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) tests, with a 2 x 3 factorial design. Gender (male or female) and income were the independent variables. Principal axis factor analysis resulted in four derived factors, used as dependent variables, in four separate two-way ANOVA procedures. Main effects and a two-way interaction effect were detected, with p< .01 in only one case, when the factor we labelled “Impulse Control” was used as dependent variable.

Suggested Citation

Bell, Reginald and Choudhury, Dibyendu and Guyot, Wally and Meier, Robert, Impulse Control and Internet Addiction Disorder Among Indian Business Professionals (May 3, 2016). Journal of Organizational Culture, Communications & Conflict, Special Issue, Forthcoming, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2774316

Reginald Bell (Contact Author)

Prairie View A&M University ( email )

Prairie View, TX
United States
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Dibyendu Choudhury

National Institute for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (NIMSME) ( email )

Yousufguda
Hyderabad, 500045
India

Wally Guyot

Fort Hays State University ( email )

Hays, KS 67601
United States

Robert Meier

Fort Hays State University ( email )

Hays, KS 67601
United States

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