Compensatory Usage of the Internet: The Case of Mukbang Watching on YouTube.

Objective: Accumulating empirical research has emphasized that a wide range of online activities-such as using social networking sites-can be performed in order to compensate unattained needs or to cope with negative affect and psychopathological symptoms. Although the correlates of problematic social networking use have been extensively investigated, less is known about problematic YouTube use (PYU), an umbrella term grouping a number of different activities (e.g.

Childhood Emotional Abuse and Cyberbullying Perpetration: The Role of Dark Personality Traits.

Dark personality traits (i.e., Machiavellianism, psychopathy, narcissism, spitefulness, and sadism) are associated with adverse childhood experiences and deviant online behaviors.

Determinants of phubbing, which is the sum of many virtual addictions: a structural equation model.

Background And Aims: Phubbing can be described as an individual looking at his or her mobile phone during a conversation with other individuals, dealing with the mobile phone and escaping from interpersonal communication. In this research, determinants of phubbing behavior were investigated; in addition, the effects of gender, smart phone ownership and social media membership were tested as moderators.

Methods: To examine the cause-effect relations among the variables of the theoretical model, the research employs a correlational design.