Internet Slang in the Lexical Decision Task: Does Reaction Time for Word Recognition Correlate With Problematic Internet Use in Youth?
We proposed a complex diagnostics of problematic Internet use by implementing an online GPIUS3 survey and an experimental psycholinguistic technique (lexical decision task). Increasingly, researchers associate Internet use with problematic, destructive user behavior. Problematic Internet use (PIU) seems to be the most accurate definition of this type of behavior, which emphasizes the destructive potential of a person's online interaction with the global network. According to this approach, the Internet itself is not considered as a direct cause of changes in behavior and personality traits. The role of the negative consequences of the Internet use for a particular individual is emphasized. The stimuli for the lexical decision task (n = 96) were grouped in pairs: 1) thematically related slang and common words (for example, kheyter - nenavistnik, n = 24); 2) thematically unrelated slang and common words (for example, kheyter - rukav, n = 24); 3) common words and nonwords (for example, nenavistnik - stskystsk, rukav - skvuitkhe, n = 48). All the pairs were randomly presented to the participant. Each participant met slang and neutral (common) words twice in different conditions (in different pairs of stimuli). The sample comprised 106 Russian-speaking students aged 12 to 22 (M = 19.44, SD = 1.54), including females (n = 76) and males (n = 30). Using linear-mixed effects modeling, we found significant reaction time predictors which were relevant to Internet jargon processing. These predictors are cognitive preoccupation of adolescents with an effect size of -0.21 SD and mood regulation with 0.14 SD effect size. The number of hours a day spent on the Internet was not significant as a reaction time predictor in this model. The average frequency of word pairs (average Zipf-value) had a significant effect on reaction time reduction (-0.18 SD). The random effects of the participant and stimulus on reaction time were also significant in the study. The study revealed that individuals with a higher cognitive preoccupation on the Internet recognized Internet slang words significantly faster. This effect is most likely explained by the volume of individual slang vocabulary size. The stimulus-type effect showed the expected but weak trend: thematically unrelated slang and common words were recognized slower by an average of 0.08 SD of reaction time. The assumption is that the vocabulary of persons, who actively use social networking and the Internet in general, is organized according to the thematic principle, and the processing of slang-common words pairs recognition requires further verification in experimental studies.
Keywords
youth,
problematic Internet use,
Internet slang,
lexical decision taskAuthors
| Vlasov Mikhail S. | Shukshin Altai State University for Humanities and Pedagogy | vlasov@bigpi.biysk.ru ; vlasov_mikhailo@mail.ru |
| Sychev Oleg A. | Shukshin Altai State University for Humanities and Pedagogy | osn1@mail.ru |
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