Online Rewards
Students experienced online activities as attractive because they produced emotional, achievement, social, or financial rewards. Online activity could be used to reduce negative feelings such as stress, emptiness, boredom, and loneliness.…
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Students experienced online activities as attractive because they produced emotional, achievement, social, or financial rewards. Online activity could be used to reduce negative feelings such as stress, emptiness, boredom, and loneliness. The diversity of online activity functions complicates treating internet addiction as a single-object addiction. Different internet activities served different psychological functions for students.