Created by Andy Oliver Sociocultutral Explanations Addictions vary according to sex, age, socioeconomic status, ethnicity, religion, and country.
Some addictions are more common among persons of different categories.
For example, alcoholism is most common in the middle socioeconomic classes, in Native and Irish Americans, and in Catholics. Not enough data is available yet about those persons addicted to the Internet to determine if a particular class is most predominant. In addition, at this point there is not enough diversity among Internet users to make any definitive statements. As the diversity among users increases, and as the amount of research on the problem increases, hopefully we will know more about this interesting aspect of addiction with regard to the Internet. The person performs a behavior and gets either rewarded or punished for the behavior.