Computer Addiction: How wide spread is the problem? Addictions can be healthy, unhealthy, or a mixture of both. If you are fascinated by a hobby, feel devoted to it, would like to spend as much time as possible pursuing it - this could be an outlet for learning, creativity, and self-expression. Even in some unhealthy addictions you can find these positive features embedded within (and thus maintaining) the problem. But in truly pathological addictions, the …showed first 75 words of 1716 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1716 total…a possible 32 on the IRABC (SD=5.83). Scores ranged from a low of 0 (one case) to a high of 30 (one case). The overall distribution has a slight but significant positive skew (skewness=.505, Z= 2.64, p<.01) and appears almost bimodal with a cutoff score of 20 differentiating the two groups. Psychometric analysis of the IRABC shows that is has respectable internal consistency (alpha=.85). All 32 items correlated moderately with total score, ranging from .20 to .57 with an average correlation of .42.