In the present master's thesis, the author investigated the correlation between problematic use of the Internet, depression and attachment to parents in adolescents. The theoretical part describes the evaluation of youth, along with its developmental changes. It also defines the role of adolescence in relationships, especially with family and peers. The author continues to evaluate the theory of attachment, presents various models of attachment and focuses on attachment in adolescence. The author presents important areas, functions and changes in the brain, which are most active during youth. The author continues with the evaluation and risk factors for the development of addiction, and connects the latter with attachment and the brain of the adolescent. The author then stops with an in-depth analysis of addiction to the internet, where she talks about the forms and consequences of addiction to the internet, and connects the latter with attachment and the brain. This is followed by the evaluation and classification of depression, which the author connects with adolescents, attachment, the brain, and addiction to the internet. The empirical part is followed by the presentation of the results of Study I, in which 463 participants participated; 105 of them were adolescent males and 358 were adolescent females. The results did not confirm the hypothesis that female adolescents report a higher degree of attachment to parents than male adolescents. The study confirmed statistically significant gender differences regarding to female adolescents more often reporting depressive emotions than male adolescents. On the other hand, the study did not confirm the hypothesis that male adolescents report the problematic use of the internet more frequently than female adolescents. The study confirmed the statistically significant correlation between parental attachment and depression in adolescents, the correlation between parental attachment and problematic use of the internet and the correlation between depression and problematic use of the internet. Next the author presents the research method of the focus group and the results. In doing so she exposes thematic categories and, for each category, forms tables that she interprets. Results of the Study II have shed light on the experience and thinking of adolescents on the topics of family and peer relationships, depressive emotional states and especially problematic use of the Internet.
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