Problematic instant messaging use amongst university students in Singapore

• Main Author: Neo, Rachel Lijie
• Other Authors: Skoric, Marko
• Format: Final Year Project
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Communication::Cultural studies
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/1201
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This study marks the first empirical investigation of the problematic instant messaging use amongst university students in Singapore. It adapts Caplan’ s (2005) theoretical framework of problematic Internet Use (PIU) to the context of problematic instant messaging use by linking pre-existing human...