"Teenagers who are addicted to the internet are more likely to self-harm than their peers, a new study has claimed.
Researchers from China and Australia surveyed 1,618 adolescents aged 13 to 18 from China’s Guangdong Province, asking them whether they pulled their own hair or hit, pinched or burned themselves. They then gave them a test to assess whether they were suffering internet addiction, a mental health problem that has been recognised since the 1990s.
The test found that about 10 percent of the students surveyed were moderately addicted to the Internet, while less than one percent were severely addicted."