Issue: 2024, Vol. 29, No. 3
PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT OF 15–17 YEAR-OLD TEENAGERS WITH VARIOUS INTERNET DEPENDENCE
- Keywords
- teenagers at the age of 15–17 years old, physical development, internet addiction, gender characteristics
- Abstarct
- The goal was to identify the characteristics of the physical development of adolescents between the ages of 15 and 17 with varying degrees of Internet addiction. Material and methods. 150 adolescents at the age of 15–17 municipal budgetary educational institutions in Ivanovo were involved into the study. 50 of them had no internet addiction, the second group of 5016 Физическое развитие подростков 15–17 лет were at risk of internet addiction and the other 50 students demonstrated internet addiction. Internet addiction severity was assessed by S. Chen’s methodology. Anthropometric measurements using the sigma deviation method characterized physical development, average body length, body weight, and body mass index being calculated. Statistical processing was performed by generally accepted methods of variation statistics. Results and discussion. Features of the physical development in adolescents aged 15–17 years old were revealed due to the degree of internet addiction. The lowest indicators of average body length, body weight, and body mass index were found in adolescents with internet addictive behavior. Similar age- related features of those indicators were observed in male adolescents of 15, 16 and 17 years old rather than in female. Deviations of physical development were most often observed among internet-addicted adolescents, the highest number of underweight individuals being there, too. Conclusion. The revealed correlation of physical development indicators and the degree of internet addiction determines the need of attributing adolescents with internet addictive behaviour to the risk group with the formation of physical development disorders, namely, body mass deficit.
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