Individual Psychological Resources Forming Students' Resistance to Internet Addiction

The problem of Internet addiction has become increasingly relevant. The aim of the study is to analyze the psychological factors that help to prevent Internet addiction at youth age. The results of the empirical study of individual typological prerequisites of forming a resistance to Internet addiction among students are discussed. 72 first-year students of natural sciences department of Belgorod National Research University took part in experiment. The results describe the psychological traits of a student without tendency to Internet addiction. In particular, the personality traits contributing to prevention of students’ Internet-addicted behavior are: extraversion, predominance of choleric temperament, human personality traits labelled viscerotonia and somatotonia, character accentuations: demonstrative and stuck types, predisposition to “person-person” occupational type.