Computer Dependence and Internet Addiction as One of the Conflict Factors in a Modern Family

摘要

The manuscript of this scientific article presents a universal author's definition of a person's dependence on gadgets. The diversity of the following aggressions are identified as verbal, physical, objective, emotional and self-aggression, and the levels of aggressiveness and adaptiveness are determined. The degree of Internet addiction and anxiety of a dependent person are revealed. It is indicated that the wealth of high technologies, designed to facilitate the life of a modern person, is fraught of escaping from reality into a world of virtual impressions. The virtual reality increasingly displaces everyday life, which affects the interparental relationships in a modern family, causing proneness to conflict, state anxiety and aggressiveness among relatives and loved ones in the family. There are factors that demolish the family pillars - these are addictions, such as alcoholism, drug addiction, computer and Internet addiction. It has been proved that computer and Internet addiction lead to a distorted self-perception and retreating the objective reality. Such an addiction entails the social and labor maladaptation, causes to lose bearings of differentiated and adequate self-image. It transfers the pole of communicative activity from the real conditions of society to the network, which inevitably leads to autization. In fact, after taking the training on prevention of computer and Internet addiction, the level of Internet addiction among family members decreased.