Structural relations between brain-behavioral systems, social anxiety, depression and internet addiction: With regard to revised Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory (r-RST)

The exclusion of Internet addiction as a diagnostic category in DSM-V does not detract from the importance of this problem. Based on the literature, we have examined a model that comprises neurobiological factors (brain-behavioral systems) and psychopathologies (depression and social anxiety) predicting Internet addiction on a sample of Iranian students (240 females and 213 males), using Jackson-5 Scale, 2nd version of Beck Depression Inventory...