Prevention of Internet addictions among older teens

the article focuses on the phenomenon of Internet addiction as a persistent behavioral disorder manifested in compulsive desire to connect to the network and difficulties to voluntary stop being on the Internet. Psychological features of teenagers as predictors of Internet addiction are revealed. The possibilities of organizing and implementing communicative training as a means of preventing Internet addiction in older teenagers are described. The results of experimental work on the prevention of Internet addiction among older teenagers through communicative training are presented. The purpose of this study is the theoretical justification and the effective implementation of the communicative training program's experimental verification as a means of preventing Internet addiction in older teenagers. The objectives of the study include disclosure of the topic's main concepts: “prevention”, “Internet addiction”, “communicative training”; development, implementation and testing of the effectiveness of the communicative training program to prevent and/or reduce the level of Internet addiction in older teenagers, as well as the development of methodological recommendations for the prevention of Internet addiction in this age category. The results of the conducted research may be of practical interest and value for specialists working with young people and all those who are directly related to the development of the younger generation's mentally healthy personality.

older adolescent, internet addiction, predictors of internet addiction, communication training, prevention program