Author(s)

Ying Ge^1*, Junyu Huo^1,2, Jingyi Yuan¹, Huiyong Fan³

¹Key Laboratory of Emotion and Mental Health in Chongqing, Chongqing University of Arts and Sciences, Chongqing Collaborative Innovation Center for Brain Science, Chongqing, China.
²College of Transportation Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, China.
³College of Education and Sciences, Bohai University, Jinzhou, China.

To develop the initial sandplay picture system for Chinese young internet addicts (ISPSCYIA) for the diagnosis and testing studies on internet addiction, 22 pictures were selected from the used pictures of initial sandplay in existing research results of initial sandplay of Chinese young Internet addicts. 54 normal adolescents were recruited to evaluate the valence of the pictures on a nine-point scale in terms of clarity, pleasure and arousal. Results were shown that there were no significant differences between addiction pictures and non-addiction pictures in clarity, while there were significant differences in pleasure and arousal, as the scores of non-addiction pictures were higher. Correlation analysis indicated that there was obvious positive correlation among clarity, pleasure and arousal of addiction pictures & non-addiction pictures. The coefficients of internal consistency reliability and split-half reliability of 22 pictures’ scores exhibited both over 0.90. ISPSCYIA has proved typical and distinctive through valence assessment, which could be preliminarily applied to measure the characteristics of Chinese adolescents’ internet addiction.

Chinese Adolescents, Internet Addiction, Initial Sandplay, Picture System, Valence Assessment

Ge, Y. , Huo, J. , Yuan, J. and Fan, H. (2021) Establishment of the Initial Sandplay Picture System for Chinese Young Internet Addicts: Based on Valence Assessment of Normal Adolescents. Health, 13, 273-282. doi: 10.4236/health.2021.133022.