2. The Online Calming Effect: Does the Internet Provide a More Comfortable Modality for Conducting Psychotherapy?

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. List of contributing authors XIII
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. A Collective Picture of What Makes People Happy: Words Representing Social Relationships, not Money, are Recurrent with the Word ‘Happiness’ in Online Newspapers 4
6. 2. The Online Calming Effect: Does the Internet Provide a More Comfortable Modality for Conducting Psychotherapy? 17
7. 3. Feeling Anxious without It: Characteristics of People Prone to Facebook Addiction 29
8. 4. What Determinants Matter When Users Engage in Particular Collaborative Storytelling Websites? Exploring Attractive Gamification Features and Design Guidelines 38
9. 5. Assessment Of Risk Behaviors Related To Substance Use, Bullying and Alterations in Body Image in Adolescents Through a 3D Simulation Program 56
10. 6. Play With My Team— Modeling Online Game Players’ Teamwork Model in Massively Multiplier Online Role Playing Games (MMORPGs) 74
11. 7. Virtual Environments With Chroma-Keying Video Capture In Psychological Therapy 88
12. 8. Sharing personal experiences and offering advice within online health-based social networks 104
13. 9. The Digital Rage: How Anger is Expressed Online 117
14. 10. College Students’ Use of Communication Technology with Parents: Influences of Distance, Gender, and Social Presence 128
15. 11. Internet addiction: an cross-cultural perspective 141
16. 12. My pixels or my friends? Game characters as a lens for understanding user avatars in social networks 159
17. 13. Problem Mobile Phone Use in Spanish and British Adolescents: First steps towards a cross-cultural research in Europe 186
18. 14. Generalized Problematic Internet Use Scale 2: update on the psychometric properties among Italian young adults 202
19. 15. Smartphone for social networking: methodological aspects 217
20. List of Figures 228
21. List of Tables 229