Teenagers and their Addiction to Computer

Computer addiction of the teenagers seems to have become an important issue over the last 15 years in Romania, and it is still insufficiently analysed in our country. Our objective was to identify the incidence of computer addiction in a group of teenagers from a high-school in Bucharest and to pinpoint a series of characteristics. We gathered general data on our subjects: their background economical situation, health condition. The investigation methods were: CIDC and the 20 Items Scale, Draw-a-Tree, Draw-a-Person and Raven's Progressive Matrices tests. Our subjects who accepted to participate to our study do not manifest the characteristics specific for the psycho-pathological personality. There is however a high risk of developing such an addiction when speaking of pupils, but still latent.