Internet Addiction Test for Families (IAT-F)

Kimberly Young, Ph.D.

Oct 2017 · Stoelting

About this eBook

 While the Internet is a relatively new technology, that has impacted the world, and provided many benefits, it has also had negative ramifications.  Individuals unable to control their use are jeopardizing school, employment and relationships.  The concept of “Internet Addiction” is used to explain uncontrollable, damaging use of technology.  It is characterized as an impulse control disorder, comparable to pathological gambling, because of overlapping diagnostic criteria and symptomatology.

Based on these studies, the IAT was constructed to capture the problematic behavior associated with compulsive use of technology, including online porn, internet gambling and compulsive use of online games and social media.

The IAT-F is for children and adolescents and completed by an informant who knows the youth well.  The IAT-F contains the Parent-Child Internet Addiction Test (PCIAT), a 20-item-questionnaire for adolescents, and theProblematic and Risky Media Use in Children Checklist, an 8-item-checklist for use with children.  Both forms may be completed by a parent or other caregiver that knows the youth well.  Clinical cut-off scores and severity of addiction qualifiers are provided.  The PCIAT also helps identify which areas of functioning are most impaired, including:

AttentionSocial BehaviorAggressive Behavior

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About the author

 Dr. Kimberly Young is a licensed psychologist and an internationally known expert on

Internet addiction. She founded the Center for Internet Addiction in 1995, is a professor at St.

Bonaventure University, and has published numerous articles and books, including Caught in the

Net, the first to identify Internet addiction, Tangled in the Web, Internet Addiction: A Handbook

and Guide for Evaluation and Treatment, and her most recent, Internet Addiction in Children and

Adolescents: Risk Factors, Treatment, and Prevention. Her work has been featured in The New

York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The London Times, USA Today, Newsweek, Time, CNN,

CBS News, Fox News, Good Morning America, and ABC’s World News Tonight. She has received

the Psychology in the Media Award from the Pennsylvania Psychological Association and the

Alumni Ambassador Award for Outstanding Achievement from Indiana University at Pennsylvania.

She serves on the advisory board for The Internet Group in Toronto and the Japanese Ministry for

the prevention and treatment of Internet Addiction.

Dr. Young has testified for the Child Online Protection Act Congressional Committee and she

has been a keynote speaker at the European Union of Health and Medicine, the International

Conference on Digital Culture in Seoul, Korea, the US Army War College in Pennsylvania, and

the First International Congress on Internet Addiction Disorders in Milan, Italy, and served on the

National Academy of Sciences for the Digital Media and Developing Minds colloquia.

She is on the editorial board of the Journal of Behaviorial Addictions, the American Journal of

Family Therapy, Addicta: The Turkish Journal of Addiction, the International Journal of Cyber

Crime and Criminal Justice, and on the advisory board of CyberPsychology: Journal for Psychosocial

Research on Cyberspace, and a member of the American Psychological Association.