Digital health and wellness

Digital health and wellness has to do with the psychological and physical wellbeing of a individual persons in a digitally technical world. In terms of psychology there are four psychological issues we can find in the digital world.

1. Addiction

Internet addiction is known to be excessive use of the internet.Adiction can be characterised with compulive behaviour examplesof internet addiction are long periods of time pent on the computer and neglecting friends and family and craving the computer and internet.The IIE(2015).

2. Online disinhibition effect

 The online disinhibition effect is refered to have a lack of restrant when it comes to social restriant and inhibitions that are normally there during face to face interaction when taking on the internet.An example of this effect is mean spirled blog comments.The IIE(2015).

3. Cyberbullying

Cyber bullying is thevact of bullying persons or an individual on the internet ans social media platform.An example would be posting and making comments about someone.The IIE(2015).

4. Cyberstalking

Cyberstalking is characterised by the act of stalking harrasing someone over the internet to the point of frightning the victim. The victim has no control of the situation.An example of cyberstalking is hacking in the targets account to get personal information. Collecting the victims pictures that are availble on their social media.The IIE(2015).


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